Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-kw2vx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-14T23:08:27.450Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Why Do Female Students Leave Philosophy? The Story from Sydney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Tom Dougherty ,
Samuel Baron  and
Kristie Miller
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Musings
Information
Hypatia , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , Spring 2015 , pp. 467 - 474
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by Hypatia, Inc.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adleberg, Toni, Thompson, Morgan, and Nahmias, Eddie. 2014. Do men and women have different philosophical intuitions? Further data. Philosophical Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2013.878834 (accessed January 14, 2015).Google Scholar
Antony, Louise. 2012. Different voices or perfect storm: Why are there so few women in philosophy? Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (3): 227–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baron, Samuel, Dougherty, Tom, and Miller, Kristie. Ms. Why is there female under‐representation among philosophy majors? Evidence of pre‐university effects.Google Scholar
Beebee, Helen. 2013. Women and deviance in philosophy. In Women in philosophy: What needs to change?, ed. Hutchison, Katrina and Jenkins, Fiona. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Beebee, Helen, and Saul, Jennifer. 2011. Women in philosophy in the UK: A Report by the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy UK. http://www.bpa.ac.uk/uploads/2011/02/BPA_Report_Women_In_Philosophy.pdf (accessed May 28, 2014).Google Scholar
Brennan, Samantha. 2013. Rethinking the moral significance of micro‐inequities: The case of women in philosophy. In Women in philosophy: What needs to change?, ed. Hutchison, Katrina and Jenkins, Fiona. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Buckwalter, Wesley, and Stich, Steven. 2014. Gender and philosophical intuition. In Experimental philosophy, Volume 2, ed. Knobe, Joshua and Nichols, Shaun. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Calhoun, Cheshire. 2009. The undergraduate pipeline problem. Hypatia 24 (2): 216–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Calhoun, Cheshire. 2015. Precluded interests. Hypatia 30 (2): 475–85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dobbs, Christopher. Ms. Pre‐college causes of women's underrepresentation in philosophy. Thesis, Georgia State University (expected May 2015).Google Scholar
Dodds, Susan, and Goddard, Eliza. 2013. Not just a pipeline problem: Improving women's participation in philosophy in Australia. In Women in philosophy: What needs to change?, ed. Hutchison, Katrina and Jenkins, Fiona. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Dotson, Kristie. 2011. Concrete flowers: Contemplating the profession of philosophy. Hypatia 26 (2): 403–09.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dougherty, Tom, Baron, Samuel, and Miller, Kristie. Forthcoming. Female under‐representation among philosophy majors: A map of the hypotheses and a survey of the evidence. Feminist Philosophical Quarterly.Google Scholar
Dweck, Carol. 2006. Is math a gift? Beliefs that put females at risk. In Why aren't more women in science? Top researchers debate the evidence, ed. Ceci, Stephen and Williams, Wendy. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.Google Scholar
Friedman, Marilyn. 2013. Women in philosophy: Why should we care? In Women in philosophy: What needs to change?, ed. Hutchison, Katrina and Jenkins, Fiona. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goddard, Eliza, Dodds, Susan, Burns, Lynda, Colyvan, Mark, Jackson, Frank, Jones, Karen, and Mackenzie, Catriona. 2008. Improving the participation of women in the philosophy profession; Report C: Students by gender in philosophy programs in Australian universities. http://aap.org.au/Resources/Documents/publications/IPWPP/IPWPP_ReportC_Students.pdf (accessed May 28, 2014).Google Scholar
Hall, P. Courtenay. 1993. From justified discrimination to responsive hiring: The role model argument and female equity hiring in philosophy. Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (1): 23–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haslanger, Sally. 2008. Changing the ideology and culture of philosophy: Not by reason (alone). Hypatia 23 (2): 210–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Healy, Kieran. 2011. Percentage of Ph.Ds awarded in the U.S. to women in 2009. http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/02/04/gender-divides-in-philosophy-and-other-disciplines/ (accessed September 22, 2014).Google Scholar
Hill, Catherine, Corbett, Christianne, and Rose, Andresse St. 2010. Why so few? http://www.aauw.org/files/2010/03/why-so-few.pdf (accessed May 28, 2014).Google Scholar
Leslie, Sarah‐Jane, Cimpian, Andrei, Meyer, Meredith, and Freeland, Edward. 2015. Expectations of brilliance underlie women's representation across academic disciplines. Science 347 (6219): 262–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mackenzie, Catriona, and Townley, Cynthia. 2013. Women in and out of philosophy. In Women in philosophy: What needs to change?, ed. Hutchison, Katrina and Jenkins, Fiona. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moulton, Janice. 1989. A paradigm of philosophy: The adversary method. In Women, Knowledge, and Reality, ed. Garry, Ann and Pearsall, Marilyn. Boston: Unwin Hyman.Google Scholar
Paxton, Molly, Figdor, Carrie, and Tiberius, Valerie. 2012. Quantifying the gender gap: An empirical study of the underrepresentation of women in philosophy. Hypatia 27 (4): 949–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Saul, Jennifer. 2013. Implicit bias, stereotype threat and women in philosophy. In Women in philosophy: What needs to change?, ed. Hutchison, Katrina and Jenkins, Fiona. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Schouten, Gina. 2015. The stereotype threat hypothesis: An assessment from the philosopher's armchair, for the philosopher's classroom. Hypatia 30 (2): 450–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Seyedsayamdost, Hamid. 2014. On gender and philosophical intuition: Failure of replication and other negative results. Philosophical Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2014.893288 (accessed January 14, 2015).Google Scholar
Superson, Anita. 2011. Strategies for making feminist philosophy mainstream philosophy. Hypatia 26 (2): 410–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thompson, Morgan, Adleberg, Toni, Sims, Sam, and Nahmias, Eddy. Ms. Why do women leave philosophy?Google Scholar
Turri, J., and Buckwalter, W. Ms. Perceived weaknesses of philosophical inquiry: A comparison to psychology.Google Scholar
Valian, Virginia. 1998. Why so slow? The advancement of women. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Van Camp, Julie. 2014. Tenured/tenure‐track faculty women at 98 U.S. doctoral programs in philosophy. http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/doctoral_2004.html (accessed September 22, 2014).Google Scholar
Walker, Margaret U. 2005. Diotima's ghost: The uncertain place of feminist philosophy in professional philosophy. Hypatia 20 (3): 153–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wylie, Alison. 2011. Women in philosophy: The costs of exclusion—Editor's introduction. Hypatia 26 (2): 374–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar