UPDATE: The composition of the current Committee on the Status of Women is different than what is reported below: see here.
Michael Tooley (Colorado) writes (regarding the data below the fold):
I was looking over the membership of the Board of the APA, and of their "Current Initiatives and Task Forces" committees. These committees look to me to be very unbalanced.
Are men less able to discuss "best practices", or to formulate a code of conduct?!
Is anyone speaking out about this?
I've opened comments, in any case anyone does want to comment. One possibility, of course, is that men are less interested in volunteering for these committees. More worrisome, to my mind, is not the gender imbalance, but that some of the people on these committees have, through their past actions and words, demonstrated poor judgment and contempt for other important professional values. (Not being an APA member, I do not, however, get too exercised about these things, but APA members may feel differently.)
Here is the breakdown and analysis Professor Tooley sent along:
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The American Philosophical Association Board of Directors Chair (2017) |
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Comm. on Academic Career Opportunities (2017) |
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Comm. on Inclusiveness in the Profession (2016) |
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Comm. on International Cooperation (2016) |
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Comm. on Lectures, Publications, & Research (2017) |
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Comm. on Status & Future of the Profession (2015) |
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Comm. on the Teaching of Philosophy (2018) |
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Div. Officer: Central Past President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Central President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Central Representative (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Central Secretary-Treasurer (2016) |
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Div. Officer: Central Vice President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Eastern Past President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Eastern President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Eastern Representative (2016) |
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Div. Officer: Eastern Secretary-Treasurer (2017) |
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Div. Officer: Eastern Vice President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Pacific Past President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Pacific President (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Pacific Representative (2017) |
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Div. Officer: Pacific Secretary-Treasurer (2015) |
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Div. Officer: Pacific Vice President (2015) |
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Executive Director (2017) |
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Member-at-Large (2015) |
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Member-at-Large (2016) |
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Member-at-Large (2017) |
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Treasurer (2015) |
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Vice Chair (2015) |
Total Members = 28
Total of women = 17
Total of Men = 11
The Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment
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Chair |
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Members The APA website listing “Current Initiatives and Task Forces” (http://www.apaonline.org/group/board) has a link to a list of committee and task force members for all of the initiatives except for this one. I’ve dropped a note to Kathryn Norlock asking her if she can send me a list. (Perhaps there’s some overlap with the “APA” Committee on the Status of Women?) |
Diversity Institute Advisory Panel
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Chair |
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Members Adam S. Cureton M |
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Amy E. Ferrer F |
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Eva F. Kittay F |
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Cami Koepke F |
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Yena Lee F |
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Howard McGary Jr. M |
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Kevin A. Richardson M |
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Kyle P. Whyte M |
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Perry Zurn M |
Total Members = 10
Total of Women = 5
Total of Men = 5
Task Force on a Best Practices Scheme
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Total Members = 5
Total of Women = 4
Total of Men = 1
Task Force on a Code of Conduct
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Chair |
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Members Scott A. Anderson M |
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Leslie P. Francis F |
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Ned Markosian M |
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Diane Michelfelder F |
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Julinna C. Oxley F |
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Sally Scholz F |
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Yolonda Y. Wilson F |
Total Members = 8
Total of Women = 6
Total of Men = 2
Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion
Chair
Elizabeth S. Anderson F
Members
Lawrence Blum M
Peggy DesAutels F
A.J. Kreider M
Susana Nuccetelli F
Mickaella L. Perina F
Ronald R. Sundstrom M
Kenneth Taylor M
Anne S. Waters J.D. Ph.D. F
Robin Zheng (2017) F
Anita Silvers F
Total Members = 11
Total of Women = 7
Total of Men = 4
“APA” Committee on the Status of Women
Hilde Lindemann, Chair
hlinde@msu.edu
7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016
Nancy Bauer, Member
nancy.bauer@tufts.edu
7/1/2012 - 6/30/2015
Ruth Chang, Member
changr@rci.rutgers.edu
7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016
Karen Detiefsen, Member
detlefse@phil.upenn.edu
7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017
Anne Jaap Jacobson, Member
ajjacobson@uh.edu
7/1/2011 - 6/30/2016
Mary Kate McGowan, Member
mmcgowan@wellesley.edu
11/12/2012 - 6/30/2015
L.A. Paul, Member
lapaul@unc.edu
7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017
Sheryl Tuttle Ross, Member
sross@uwlax.edu
7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017
Nancy E. Snow, Member
nancy.snow@marquette.edu
7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016
Lijun Yuan, Member
7/1/2012 - 6/30/2015
Margaret Crouch. Ex Officio Member
Editor of the Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy
mcrouch@emich.edu
Peggy DesAutels, Ex Officio Member, Director of the Site Visit Program
pdesautels1@udayton.edu
Total Members = 12
Total of Women = 12
Total of Men = 0
