Why work with a woman?
Now, in 2010, our female graduate students report that if they have a female supervisor, their choice is challenged by male graduate students, and they are asked to explain why they would ever choose...
View ArticleYou can’t have thought of that yourself!
This is about 20 years ago. I was a first year graduate student, taking metaphysics. A male student—let’s call him X—was taking the same class. He was very vocal, seemed to be very intelligent. The...
View ArticleNothing to learn from them
[Famous male philosopher's] review of [two famous feminist philosophers' book] appeared in [deleted] The review was astonishingly mean-spirited and uncharitable in its reading of both philosophers. It...
View ArticleArguments? Really?
Recently I was the official commenter on a talk by an male graduate (advanced) student at a conference. It was a good paper, and he was from a very good school. There were some problems with the paper,...
View Article“Prove to me that women can write a thesis”
I want to contribute to this great proposal by telling you an anecdote with my PhD supervisor. I am a female philosopher, and, in my third PhD year, I got a comment from my supervisor that, at that...
View ArticleWhat happens when a sexual harasser is banned from teaching in his department?
When I was in graduate school one semester we noticed some odd classes taught by an unfamiliar prof, so we asked who this new person was. After doing a little investigating, the two professors we asked...
View ArticleCondescending comments
I am a female graduate student at a Leiter ranked philosophy program in the United States. I recently received comments on a rough draft of a course paper from one of my male, graduate student...
View ArticleUnsettling incidents
Though I have found many of my colleagues and professors over my several years in philosophy to be positive, there have been some incidents which have made feel uneasy about being a woman in a...
View Article“Philosophy requires reasoning, and women are irrational”
I was accepted into a Masters program that did not accept many women. Several of the faculty thought that women had no place in the discipline. I happened to be in a class of almost all women, who...
View ArticleContinuing impact of a power-imbalanced relationship
One of my first philosophy teachers was a doctoral candidate with a reputation for befriending his students. What most stood out to me was that he taught in a way that encouraged collaboration, rather...
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