Improving the Participation of Women in the Philosophy Profession

Project Report July 2008

• Executive Summary (380.2 KB)
• Report A: Staffing by Gender in Philosophy Programs in Australian Universities (797.4 KB)
• Report B: Appointments by Gender in Philosophy Programs in Australian Universities (225.3 KB)
• Report C: Students by Gender in Philosophy Programs in Australian Universities (818.5 KB)

Project Background

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Data and Reports on women in the profession

• Australian data and reports on women in the philosophy profession
• International data and reports on women in the philosophy profession

Australasian data and reports:

Grant, B., ‘”I thought philosophy was a girl thing”: The Curious Case of Women Students in a Department of Philosophy’, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 3., 2002, pp. 1-14.


Employment of Women 1983-9, 1990
(committee: Janna Thompson. Marion Tapper)


To update the recommendations of the 1982 report 'concerning women in the philosophy profession', 1990
(committee: San MacColl & Denise Russell)


To investigate the special problems concerning women in the philosophy profession, 1982, Recommendations of the committee
(committee: San MacColl, Marion Tapper, Genevieve Lloyd, Barbara Roxon) & comparative employment and student data (1970; 1975; 1980)

• 'Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)' Sally Haslanger's comments at the Central APA panel (2007), includes Statistics on the representation of authors by gender in philosophy journals 2002-7

• Tenured/tenure-track women at 98 U.S. doctoral programs in philosophy (Julie Van Camp)

• SWIP UK: Women-friendly departments (Society for Women in Philosophy, UK)