Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career (guest post)

“Publication differences by gender are small or statistically undetectable during graduate study, but become more pronounced by graduation and especially by the time of first permanent hire…. Teaching portfolios appear broadly similar across gender groups in terms of overall volume, though there are some suggestive differences in how teaching labor is distributed and repeated over time.” Those are two of the conclusions drawn from a study of data gleaned from a 2025 survey conducted by Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA). In the following guest post, Travis LaCroix, assistant professor of philosophy at Durham University and co-director of Academic Philosophy Data Analysis (APDA) discusses these and other findings. (A version of this post is at the APDA blog.) [Nathalie Miebach, “Spinning Towards a New Normal” (detail)] Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career by Travis LaCroix In our previous installments, we examined broad…