{"id":252,"date":"2007-09-10T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2007-09-10T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:24:00","slug":"stalled-progress-for-women-who-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/09\/10\/stalled-progress-for-women-who-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalled Progress for Women Who Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RuVJwg9NROI\/AAAAAAAAAXY\/Puyij_mHoeU\/s1600-h\/180px-Hypatia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RuVJwg9NROI\/AAAAAAAAAXY\/Puyij_mHoeU\/s200\/180px-Hypatia.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Turns out the <span style=\"font-style:italic\">New Yorker&#8217;s<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/absence-of-womens-shouts-and-murmurs.html\">Shouts and Murmurs isn&#8217;t the only place women aren&#8217;t being published.<\/a>  Just came upon this uplifting little tidbit, via <span style=\"font-style:italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/09\/10\/philos\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/span>, about a paper by MIT philosophy professor Sally Haslanger on the limits of progress for women in philosophy. The paper won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appear until next year, in the journal <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Hypatia<\/span>, but Haslanger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~shaslang\/papers\/HaslangerCICP.pdf\">posted a version of it online<\/a> and it&#8217;s attracting considerable attention.  (Total non sequitor: I will always have a soft spot for <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Hypatia<\/span>.  They published my first academic article, as part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/iupjournals.org\/hypatia\/hyptoc12.html#v12n3\">special &#8220;third wave feminism&#8221; issue<\/a> back in 1997.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scoop:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Haslanger studied the gender breakdowns in the top 20 departments (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophicalgourmet.com\/overall.asp\">The Philosophical Gourmet Report<\/a>) and found that the percentage of women in tenure track positions was 18.7 percent, with two departments under 10 percent. She also looked at who published in top philosophy journals for the last five years and found that only 12.36 percent of articles were by women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> As <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Inside Higher Ed<\/span> goes on to note, &#8220;While Haslanger hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made formal proposals for reform, in her essay and in the interview, she spoke of the importance of ensuring that women receive equal treatment through blind review of journal submissions and that &#8216;efforts ought to be made to make sure women aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t solo in graduate programs.&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Interesting discussion going on about it all over at <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2007\/09\/06\/sally-haslanger-on-women-in-philosophy\/#comments\">Crooked Timber<\/a>, an academic group blog I just discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out the New Yorker&#8217;s Shouts and Murmurs isn&#8217;t the only place women aren&#8217;t being published. Just came upon this uplifting little tidbit, via Inside Higher Ed, about a paper by MIT philosophy professor Sally Haslanger on the limits of progress for women in philosophy. The paper won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appear until next year, in the journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4124],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}