A quick count revealed about equal numbers of men and women in the audience — an unusual figure for an event in philosophy, where women make up less than 20 percent of full-time faculty.

and nearly 21 percent of professors in philosophy are women. Those numbers are even lower for women of color and queer and trans women. Many women who pursue advanced study in philosophy speak of a ...

For a decade, Duke's Project Vox has elevated the roles of women whose impact on philosophy has been hidden or buried Until recently, a philosophy doctoral student looking for a dissertation subject ...

The University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday announced that it was changing the leadership of its philosophy department and requiring mandatory training for all faculty in an effort to change a ...

Women make up only a minority of philosophers, and an even smaller minority in the history of the profession. One can easily get the impression that women's contributions to philosophy are only a ...

What it may not call to mind is a woman. And perhaps for good reason: The field of philosophy has always had a stark gender imbalance. And it’s no different today. Though women tend to be ...

The reason I mentioned here is general and closely related to the goals of philosophy as a school subject. The second enormous problem is the omission of all women philosophers from the canon.

The "run philosophy" idea was gender-neutral at the beginning, but some people have started to connect it with the experiences of women in China. Recently, an online discussion board on ...