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Improving the Participation of Women in the Philosophy Profession (IPWPP)

The Project, 'Improving the Participation of Women in the Philosophy Profession', commissioned in 2007 and overseen by a Committee of Senior Academics Addressing the Status of Women in the Philosophy Profession, had the following main aims:

  • Data collection and analysis to identify the key stages in women’s education or careers in those cases where they either leave Philosophy or stall in their careers; and the
  • Preparation of a report based on the collected information that could be used to frame future strategies for enhancing women’s participation in all levels of academic Philosophy.

The project was supported by a Vice Chancellor's Challenge Grant from the University of Wollongong and the Australasian Association of Philosophy. Heads of Australasian Philosophy programs gave their formal support to the project.

The IPWPP Report was tabled at the AAP AGM in 2008. At this meeting it was supported by the membership. AAP Council has passed a motion to monitor the implementation of the Report. The Standing Committee for Women in the profession is responsible for the monitoring.

project background

Project Report July 2008

To cite this Report please use the following:

Goddard, Eliza (2008), Improving the participation of Women in the Philosophy Profession, on behalf of Dodds, Sue, Burns, Lynda, Colyvan, Mark, Jackson, Frank, Jones, Karen, and Mackenzie, Catriona.

Australasian data, papers and reports:

  • 'A question for the ages - why aren't there more women philosophers?' by Heath Gilmore, The Age, Higher Education Section, 20th July 2010.

  • Goddard, Eliza (2008), Improving the participation of Women in the Philosophy Profession, on behalf of Dodds, Sue, Burns, Lynda, Colyvan, Mark, Jackson, Frank, Jones, Karen, and Mackenzie, Catriona.

  • Grant, Barbara (2002), ‘”I thought philosophy was a girl thing”: The Curious Case of Women Students in a Department of Philosophy’, Teaching Philosophy, 25(3): pp. 1-14.

  • Tapper, Marion and Thompson, Janna (1990), Employment of Women 1983-9, Report to AAP Council.

  • MacColl, San and Russell, Denise (1991), To update the recommendations of the 1982 report “concerning women in the philosophy profession”, Report to AAP Council.)

  • MacColl, San, Tapper, Marion, Lloyd, Genevieve and Roxon, Barbara (1982), To investigate the special problems concerning women in the philosophy profession, Report to AAP Council.
International data, papers & reports: