Advancing Women in Philosophy

BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme

The British Philosophical Association and Society for Women in Philosophy (UK) have launched their Good Practice Scheme. The scheme aims to assist UK Philosophy Departments, learned societies and journals in ensuring that they have policies and procedures in place that encourage the representation of women in philosophy.

Philosophical Spaces: Answering questions about how to improve the professional environment of philosophy (blog)

What We're Doing About What It's Like: Making Things Better for Women in Philosophy: Blog

Minorities in Philosophy (MAP): Map for the Gap

The Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University Climate Website - users report finding their instruments and questionnaires very helpful.

New York Times Opinionator, The Stone, Five Commentaries on Women in Philosophy, September 2-6, 2013

Sally Haslanger, Linda Martín Alcoff, Rae Langton, Louise Antony, and Peg O'Connor

NPR, Name Five Women in Philosophy. Bet You Can't, June 17, 2013

Tania Lombrozo

Hypatia - Virtual Issue: Essays on the Place of Women in the Profession

Edited by Ann E. Cudd

This virtual issue brings together essays published by Hypatia over a twenty year timespan that address the question of women’s place in the profession of philosophy. It includes essays about women in the history of philosophy, empirical studies of the representation of women at various career stages in careers in philosophy, analytical essays about why women, including specifically women of color, are not reaching parity with white men in the profession, and essays and reports about what women are doing to change the representation of women in philosophy. The issue highlights the efforts that women have made through the centuries and in the pages of this Journal to demand a place for women as philosophers. Read the full introduction here.

I. Women in philosophy in historical perspective

Charlene Haddock Seigfried, 1895 Letter from Harvard Philosophy Department" 8.2 (1993)

Eileen O'Neill, "Early Modern Women Philosophers and the History of Philosophy" 20.3 (2005)

Dorothy Rogers, "The Other Philosophy Club: America’s First Academic Women Philosophers" 24.2 (2009)

Marije Altorf, "After Cursing the Library: Iris Murdoch and the Invisibility of Women in Philosophy" 26.2 (2011)

II. Contemporary analysis of gender exclusion

Alison Wylie, "Women in Philosophy: The Costs of Exclusion -- Editor's Introduction" 26.2 (2011)

Sara Ruddick, " Review of Alcoff, Singing in the Fire" 21.2 (2006)

Sally Haslanger, "Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason Alone" 23.2 (2008)

Cheshire Calhoun, "The Undergraduate Pipeline Problem" 24.2 (2009)

Molly J. Paxton, Carrie Figdor, and Valerie Tiberius, "Quantifying the Gender Gap: An Empirical Study of the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy" 27.4 (2012)

III. Analysis of Race & Gender exclusion