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Sex ratio on this site?

baden511
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Posted 11/06/09 - 09:57 AM: Subject: Sex ratio on this site?	#1
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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1 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 11/06/09 - 09:59 AM:	#2
It's roughly one female for every over nine thousand males.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 10:03 AM:	#3
Incision wrote: It's roughly one female for every over nine thousand males. Darn, that's a bit boring.
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1 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 11/06/09 - 12:29 PM:	#4
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Posted 11/06/09 - 01:50 PM:	#5
Darn... and I was hoping it wasn't about gender... Not that I ever get any sex to begin with.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 01:53 PM:	#6
Women have more important things to do.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 01:56 PM:	#7
I'm kind of effeminate, does that count?
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Posted 11/06/09 - 02:30 PM:	#8
"Women have more important things to do" <<personally taking a break from those 'more important things to do' to do something just as important>> 'raising her hand' Here and accounted for.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 05:16 PM:	#9
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:	#10
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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