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News: February/March 2015

Conspicuous Shortage of Women Philosophers • Non-Human Rights • Google Hires Philosopher • Museum to Confucius Built — News reports by Sue Roberts, Tomiwa Owolade and Anja Steinbauer

(No) Women in Philosophy

A recent report by the Equality Challenge Unit found that, among non-Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, philosophy is, with the exception of Economics, the most male-dominated. In the UK women account for only 28.8% of professional philosophers. This shocking statistic will not come as a surprise to Professor Jennifer Saul, who has been hosting a blog with an abundance of accounts of what it can be like being a woman in philosophy:

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