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In philosophy, and I assume in other disciplines too, it matters a lot whose work gets cited. I recall reading about studies that showed women's work gets cited considerably less, on average, than men's work, in philosophy. Does anybody know any sources on that? I think women's contributions, even when published, can just get erased, like women so generally get erased from the histories in all areas that survive and get handed down.

On Oct 27, 2012, at 12:41 AM, devora shapiro wrote:

What an odd assortment of "subfields."

And if you look at the method for determining "gender of author": "Gender of authors was determined after researchers consulted data on birth names collected by the U.S. Social Security Administration. If a name was used at least 95 percent of the time for a female, that name was considered female;"

What would have happened to the "woman" author count if they had realized Hilary Putnam was a man....

Devora Shapiro
From: Emanuela Bianchi <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 1:28 PM
Subject: Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the gender gap in scholarly publishing
FYI. Once again philosophy noteworthy for underrepresentation of women...
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Hard-Numbers-Behind/135236/

enormous table by discipline
 http://chronicle.com/article/Woman-as-Academic-Authors/135192
All best,

Emma
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Emanuela Bianchi
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