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baden511
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Posted 11/06/09 - 09:57 AM:
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Does anyone have any idea what the male/female ratio might be on this site? Just curious.

Edited by baden511 on 11/06/09 - 10:02 AM

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Posted 11/06/09 - 09:59 AM:
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It's roughly one female for every over nine thousand males.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 10:03 AM:
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It's roughly one female for every over nine thousand males.

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Darn, that's a bit boring.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 12:29 PM:
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I can pretend to be a woman if you like grin

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Posted 11/06/09 - 01:50 PM:
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Darn... and I was hoping it wasn't about gender... sticking out tongue Not that I ever get any sex to begin with.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 01:53 PM:
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Women have more important things to do.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 01:56 PM:
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I'm kind of effeminate, does that count?

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Posted 11/06/09 - 02:30 PM:
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"Women have more important things to do"

<<personally taking a break from those 'more important things to do' to do something just as important>>

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Posted 11/06/09 - 05:16 PM:
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Philosophy is quite dominated by men. Hopefully we are seeing a trend the other way though.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 05:40 PM:
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baden511 wrote:
Does anyone have any idea what the male/female ratio might be on this site? Just curious.

The number of female philosophers throughout history has been extremely small. This site is probably no more skewed with regard to sex ratio than the field of philosophy itself. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single significant female philosopher.

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