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Published · transcript-backedKwame Anthony Appiah: belief
31 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World
“There’s about a third, I think. So obviously that means that in graduate school, there’s probably about a third women to start with, but again, more of them leave, so clearly, we’re doing something wrong because it isn’t that women are not equally interested in the subject, as they arrive.”
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- 31 Jul 2019
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…How can we bring more diversity — racial and otherwise — to philosophy? What concretely should we do? Well, the challenge is that . . . I don’t remember the numbers exactly, but it’s something like this. Men and women enter undergraduate philosophy at about the same rates, but women leave faster, so that by the end of college, there are more males than females in most philosophy majors. There’s about a third, I think. So obviously that means that in graduate school, there’s probably about a third women to start with, but again, more of them leave, so clearly, we’re doing something wrong because it isn’t that women are not equally interested in the subject, as they arrive. But they may have more common sense, right? Philosophers are underpaid relative to their smarts, and at some point, you might just say, “Gee, why am I doing this?”…
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