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