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News: November/December 2011

Why So Few Women Philosophers? • Procrastinationist wins Ig-Nobel Prize • Internet will eat your brain shock claim — News reports by Sue Roberts

Women in Philosophy

At the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association conference in September, Professors Helen Beebee and Jennifer Saul presented a report on the status of women in academic philosophy in Britain. They found that although 46% of philosophy undergraduates are women, the percentage drops rapidly as philosophers progress through their academic careers, so that only 24% of permanent teaching staff are women. This is similar to figures previously reported for the USA and Continental Europe. It is a much lower proportion than in arts disciplines such as English Literature, being more like the percentages seen in Physics and Mathematics.

Beebee and Saul considered why this sharp imbalance exists.

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