Male Domination of Philosphy

[Theorist]

Re: Male Domination of Philosphy

@Ghost14

No, I was disagreeing with your assertion that women’s opinions are still considered childish or irrelevant by the vast majority of people, thereby disagreeing that this is a significant factor as to why more women aren’t visible in Philosophy. Historically, yes, this was true, although, again, I disagree with you on whether this is the case today. Nevertheless, this is an interesting question.

Yes, but the damage has been done. We still have billions of people believing that anything a woman has to say must be childish. Heck, I have experienced this at work! When i was assisting field technicians over the phone, many technicians would not talk to me because I was a woman and apparently did not know what I was doing. They would flat out tell me in the first 10 seconds of the call that they wanted to speak to a man. I have been discriminated against many times because I am a woman. My previous fiber construction manager who I was NOT working under directly even said to my manager (director of Network Ops) that I got the job because I was a young pretty face. Yeah, it still happens!

Again, I count the entire world not just the West.