This is possibly another contributing factor to why your reaching more men with the lectures.
Women are lower in interest in ideas but higher in interest in aesthetics: both aspects of big 5 trait opennesshttps://necpluribusimpar.net/women-underrepresented-philosophy-care/ …
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@liebermaninfo I've always admired
@CHSommers and@patchurchland but have never known a woman personally who was fascinated by philosophy. -
I can't either!
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I'm the author of this blog post, thanks a lot for sharing it and bringing more attention to it!
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I suspect so, but it seems that philosophy is male-dominated to the same extent in France, where continental is standard, so I'm not sure.
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What I know is that, so far, efforts to increase % women have mostly consisted in lowering standards by treating as philosophy bad sociology
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It's possible. There is certainly overlap between feminist philosophy and what they do in gender studies departments.
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But that's because most feminist philosophy is pretty bad, like the crap they do in gender studies department.
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Again it's possible but that would probably further support my hypothesis as gender studies do things pretty different from what
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