tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30289778.post3648018751106430417..comments2023-12-01T00:34:23.424-05:00Comments on Knowledge and Experience: Women Are Not Earning More Philosophy PhD'sEvelyn Bristerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016286150526911445noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30289778.post-28619448866254774172013-06-07T02:12:23.849-04:002013-06-07T02:12:23.849-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ranjinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05500353013507318574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30289778.post-75174576506831225382007-11-30T09:23:00.000-05:002007-11-30T09:23:00.000-05:00Sharon, is that paper available online? That was a...Sharon, is that paper available online? That was a great session. <BR/>Meghan, you're absolutely right.Evelyn Bristerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17016286150526911445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30289778.post-54536440810473223582007-11-29T13:37:00.000-05:002007-11-29T13:37:00.000-05:00What is to be done?One thing that could/should be ...What is to be done?<BR/><BR/>One thing that could/should be done is for women already tenured or in tenure-track jobs to push back against what I think of as the 'energetic guy' profile that is held up as the paradigm for young philosophers. I remember a thread a few years ago on the Brian Leiter blog in which responses were offered to the question of how bad it was for one's job prospects to take time off in or after graduate school, or take more than 5-6 years to complete the Ph.D.. The consensus seemed to be something like: If you're "slow" or gappy, you're just not serious about philosophy. Conversation and online observation over the past few years has led me to conclude that other factors required if one is to be viewed as serious about philosophy include frequent conference attendance, brisk output of journal publications on currently "hot" topics, and possibly an active online presence. <BR/><BR/>I think that a sincere effort to question each of these supposed markers of a good philosopher would be a very valuable endeavor. This should, of course, be accompanied by a continued inquiry into why men seem to do all of these things - no time off, conferences aplenty, blog chat - so much more than women.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11778112272118068723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30289778.post-22162512999713752382007-11-28T17:24:00.000-05:002007-11-28T17:24:00.000-05:00This is a very good point and when I presented a p...This is a very good point and when I presented a paper on this subject at the panel that Berit reported on I was careful to point this out. However, there is another piece of evidence that makes the 30% possibly important. If we look at other the history of other disciplines we see that once they went over the 30% mark that seemed to make a difference and there was a rapid increase in women PhDs from that point on. Now philosophy may not be like other disciplines but this was one of the reasons why there was some optimism about the 30%. It wasn't just that it was an increase over the previous year but that this percentage appeared to be a tipping point in other disciplines. Will philosophy prove to be similar to these disciplines or continue to be an anomaly?Sharon Crasnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16598307283024089670noreply@blogger.com