Katharina Nieswandt | Gender Ratio in Philosophy: An Inferential-Statistical Model of Possible Determinants | Philosophy Speaker Series

About one-third of academic philosophers, from the level of undergraduate student to associate professor, are women. Our joint team of philosophers (Nieswandt, Hlobil) and psychologists (Maranges, Iannuccilli, Dunfield) conducted a series of surveys (n= 467) to investigate why women are less likely than men to study philosophy. We offer a three-factor model of possible determinants. What sets our study apart from previous investigations is that it provides inferential (rather than merely descriptive) statistics and that it meets current methodological standards of quantitative social research (as regards, e.g., literature review, item validation and sample).

Read more about the study in the blogs of the Canadian Philosophical Association and American Philosophical Association.

Katharina Nieswandt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University. She specializes in metaethics and political theory. She has published in various philosophy journals, including the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

This presentation will take place in-person and be simultaneously live-streamed via Zoom: