CHE Article on Women in Philosophy

As a couple of correspondents pointed out to me, this piece is a bit "shallow," so much so, that I expect it was badly edited (Ms. Mangan's coverage is usually better, and given how short this is, I expect a lot of relevant content got cut).  Unfortunately, nothing was said about sexual harassment, which Ms. Mangan and I had discussed, and which is still the scandal of the philosophy profession.  My point also wasn't that changes to how philosophy is taught have driven women away, but rather that as philosophy migrated closer to the sciences in the Anglophone world over the last fifty years, it acquired the same kinds of problems those disciplines have had with gender equity--but unlike many of the science fields, philosophy has not, until recently, been particularly self-conscious about this or pro-active in remedying it.  (As Ms. Mangan and I discussed, why the sciences had these problems is a topic unto itself--no doubt sexual harassment, gender stereotyping and other explicit and implicit biases have all played a role.  But philosophy would do well to emulate what many science fields have done to try to rectify the inequities.)