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  • Why do women leave philosophy? Surveying students at the introductory level.
  • Why are women more quiet in department meetings?
  • Five NYTs articles about women in philosophy – The Philosopher’s Stone
  • Gender schemas – Virginia Valian
  • Microinequities – Mary Rowe
  • Women not receiving adequate attention and training – Jonathan Wolff
  • Pipeline issues – Georgia State study on why women drop out of philosophy after their introductory course.
  • Work women do is often considered a favor not requiring reciprocity – not so for work men do
  • More on the gender gap in academia – Monkey Cage Report
  • Brain differences in women and men? – Cordelia Fine
  • Everyday Sexism Project – and comebacks to sexist comments
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  • What Women Have to Do to Get Ahead

 

See also What is Implicit Bias? and What is Stereotype Threat?

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