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Women who feel dissimilar to philosophers tend to leave the field, study finds

Women who feel dissimilar to philosophers tend to leave the field, study finds

‘People think of philosophers as stereotypically a dead white man, or old white man with a beard,’ says Heather Demerest, who notes that Descartes was more than such a caricature


One reason female students of philosophy are under-represented is they don’t see a lot of philosophers who seem to be like them, and professional philosophers can take steps to reverse the trend, a ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï p