This study (of anthropologists) suggests that they do– as compared to women in other professions with similar training times. Many interesting puzzles to be found in the data, but I’ll never get this book written if I get started on them here! (Thanks, Sally!)
Subscribe by email
This is a useful database!
Categories
Got something to send the Feminist Philosophers?
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Top Posts
- "It was exhausting"
- Gender-neutral interventions
- What's The #1 Killer Of Girls Aged 15-19 Worldwide?
- Alison Wylie 2013's Distinguished Woman Philosopher
- The average face of women across the world
- 2012 Gender Inequality Index
- Afar region, Ethiopia, abandoing female genital mutilation
- Here's hoping the Michael J Fox Show is awesome
- Kakenya Ntaiya and the Kakenya Center for Excellence
- The Saturday cat is so privileged that he totally disrespects the Sunday cat's space
Pages
Blogroll
- A Collage of Citations
- Abyss 2 Hope
- Alas, a Blog
- All About My Vagina
- Amptoons
- And Another Thing
- APA Committee on the Status of Women
- Arab Woman Progressive Voice
- Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
- Atoms Arranged
- Bangladesh From Our View
- Barbara Ehrenreich’s Blog
- Bideshi Blue
- Bitch PhD
- Bite-Sized Subversions
- Black Looks
- Blogging For America
- Border Thinking
- Broadsheet
- cardiff feminist network
- Carnival of Feminists
- Certain Doubts
- Collegium of Black Women Philosophers
- Colored Demos
- Composite
- Condomologist
- Conservatory Girl
- crooked timber
- Cruella Blog
- Diary of an Anxious Black Woman
- Disabled Philosophers
- diversity@spp
- Dolly Mix
- Echidne of the Snakes
- Engage: Conversations in Philosophy
- Engender
- Experimental Philosophy
- F Watch
- F-Words
- Female Science Professor
- Feminist Aesthetics
- Feminist Allies
- Feminist Law Professors
- Feminist Mormon Housewives
- Feminist Philosophers
- Feminist Response in Disability Activisim
- Feministe
- Feministing
- Feminocracy
- Fit, Feminist, and (almost) Fifty
- Florida Philosophy Student Blog
- Geek Feminism
- Gender, Race and Philosophy
- Genius NZ
- Gone Public
- Halfie
- Hi My Name Is…
- Hook and Eye
- I Blame The Patriarchy
- Irresponsibility
- Jean Kazez
- Just Another Angry Black Muslim Woman?
- Knowledge and Experience
- Language Log
- Law and Letters
- Lemmings
- Lilith Attack
- London Feminists
- London Pro-Feminist Men
- Mad Melancholic Feminista
- Metamorpho-Sis
- Mind the Gap
- Miss Crip Chick
- Ms Magazine Blog
- Ms Magazine Online
- Multiplicative Identity
- Muslimah Media Watch
- My Fault, I'm Female
- Natalia Antonova
- New APPS: Arts, Politics, Philosophy, Science
- Nine Pearls
- No Cookies For Me
- No Snow Here
- Objectify This
- Oh No a WoC PhD
- On The Issues
- Packaging Girlhood
- Pandagon
- Pandemian
- Pea Soup
- PennyRed
- Philobiblon
- Philosophy, Etc
- Public Reason
- Questioning Transphobia
- Rachel’s Musings
- Racialicious
- Red Jenny
- RH Reality Check
- Rozena Maart
- SAFER
- Sex In The Public Square
- SGRP The Blog
- Shakesville
- Sheffield Fems
- Siris
- Sister Song
- Slap Upside the Head
- SM Feminists
- Social Justice Feminist
- Staff of Ra
- Symposia on Gender, Race, And Philosophy
- The Brooks Blog
- The Curvature
- The F Word
- The Forbidden Sister
- Thoughts Arguments and Rants
- Thus Spake Zuska
- Ultra Violet
- Unapologetically Female
- Unapologetically Female
- Viva La Feminista
- Wages of Ignorance
- What is it like to be a woman in philosophy?
- What Sorts of People
- What We're Doing About What It's Like
- Where's the benefit?
- Women Count
- Women Philosophers
The comments below the article are very interesting. There’s one horrible one that might be meant to parody ‘the scientist’s’ view.
Comments are not just interesting.. they are interesting on very clever way.
Dejan, I agree!
If you are interested in this topic, you should at least skim the 184-page original report on the COSWA 2008 Survey of anthropologists. The demographics indicate that the respondents were 70% female and 30% male. This contrasts with an American Association of Anthropologists 2006 Survey of Anthropology departments indicating that they had 43% female and 54% male faculty members.
Additional interesting information in the COSWA Survey tells us that the 2006 AAA Survey of departments indicated that tenure track/tenured faculty were 59% female and 37% male. (All faculty were 52% female and 46% male.)
In the background of the COSWA Survey is the fact that 71.5% of it’s respondents were cultural anthropologists, 15.8% archaeologists, and 7.0% biologic anthropologists. This contrasts with the 2006 AAA Survey of departments that found that 46% of faculty members were cultural anthropologists, 26% were archaeologists, and 14% were biologic anthropologists. It should be noted that these three professions make very different professional and personal demands on their practitioners.