Why are professional philosophers today still overwhelmingly male? Often it is assumed that women need to change to fit existing institutions. This book instead offers concrete reflections on the way in which philosophy needs to change to benefit from the important contribution women's full participation makes to the discipline.

Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction: Searching for Sofia: Gender and Philosophy in the 21st Century ; Fiona Jenkins and Katrina Hutchison ; 2. Women in Philosophy: Why Should We Care? ; Marilyn Friedman ; 3. Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat and Women in Philosophy ; Jennifer Saul ; 4. Women and deviance in philosophy ; Helen Beebee ; 5. Singing the Post-Discrimination Blues: Notes for a Critique of Academic Meritocracy ; Fiona Jenkins ; 6. Sages and Cranks: The Difficulty of Identifying First-Rate Philosophers ; Katrina Hutchison ; 7. Models and Values: Why Did New Zealand Philosophy Departments Stop Hiring Women Philosophers? ; Adriane Rini ; 8. Not Just a Pipeline Problem: Improving Women's Participation in Philosophy in Australia ; Susan Dodds and Eliza Goddard ; 9. Women in and out of Philosophy ; Catriona Mackenzie and Cynthia Townley ; 10. Rethinking the Moral Significance of Micro-Inequities: The Case of Women in Philosophy ; Samantha Brennan ; 11. The Silencing of Women ; Justine McGill ; 12. Finding Time for Philosophy ; Michelle Bastian ; Appendix 1: Seeing the Trends in the Data ; Glenys Bishop, with Helen Beebee, Eliza Goddard and Adriane Rini ; Appendix 2: Statistical Analyses ; Glenys Bishop ; Contributor Biographies ; Index

"This is an important volume for philosophy as an institution. It raises many difficult questions for the institution of philosophy with regard to its own internal injustices and what is being left out of academic philosophy itself. The articles also offer many useful suggestions for how we might do things differently, so that more women want to be philosophers and help to change the discipline so that it can more closely resemble what it has long claimed to be: a universal discipline, inclusive of human thought." --Hypatia: A Journal for Feminist Philosophy "Women in Philosophy is a call for changes that need to be adopted by all philosophers but especially our male colleagues. Every philosophy department needs to have at least one copy of this book so that it can be passed around and then discussed. The discussions prompted will be philosophically challenging because the book is philosophy done well. May those discussions also bring about the kinds of changes that make philosophy better."--Peg O'Connor, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "This is a fantastic collection on the gender imbalance in Anglophone philosophy. The essays represent a variety of approaches to the problem of women's underrepresentation. It is especially important that the book not only offers a way for philosophers to learn about psychological and sociological results that have a bearing on how we organize ourselves, but also a way for us to become more reflective about distinctively philosophical aspects of our practice."--Sally Haslanger, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selling point: Looks at problems of women's under-representation and lack of seniority in a disciplinary area that has proven highly resistant to the many feminist critiques of patriarchal orientation over a 2000 year history. Selling point: Brings multiple perspectives to bear on interpretation and potential remedy including those afforded by empirical psychology, institutional analysis, theories of discrimination and philosophy itself.

Katrina Hutchison is a postdoctoral researcher at Macquarie University and is currently working on research projects on the ethics and epistemology of surgery. She also has research interests in feminist philosophy and in the role and value of philosophy beyond the academy. Fiona Jenkins teaches and researches in the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. She is also the Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute. Her present research includes a project on Judith Butler's political philosophy, and one looking at how disciplines in the Social Sciences have integrated feminist scholarship. She is a co-editor of Allegiance and Identity in a Globalising World (2013) and a special edition of Angelaki, "The Limits of the Human" (2011).

Selling point: Looks at problems of women's under-representation and lack of seniority in a disciplinary area that has proven highly resistant to the many feminist critiques of patriarchal orientation over a 2000 year history. Selling point: Brings multiple perspectives to bear on interpretation and potential remedy including those afforded by empirical psychology, institutional analysis, theories of discrimination and philosophy itself.