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IMPLISITT Avdekking av kjønnspartiskheter i filosofifaget

IMPLISITT Avdekking av kjønnspartiskheter i filosofifaget

IMPLISITT was a two-year long intervention project at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and financed by the BALANSE program, The Research Council of Norway. The project was run by the Feminist Philosophy Research Group in collaboration with the Center for Women's and Gender Research and carried out through a range of targeted activities aiming at increasing awareness and counterbalancing the negative effects of implicit bias and stereotype threats in women’s career development within the field of philosophy.

IMPLISITT’s main goal was to locally identify the degree in which implicit biases and stereotype threats contribute to keeping philosophy as an outlier among other Humanities fields when it comes to gender balance and to establish mechanisms for reducing the negative impact of bias in the field. The lack of gender balance at the local level has been connected to unbalanced power relations among colleagues and also between instructors/supervisors and students. In turn, such unbalances have been connected to the creation of systematic advantages favoring a certain group at the expense of others to the point of affecting a fair distribution of resources, opportunities, power, and recognition in the field.

Since implicit biases have pervasive effects for women in philosophy affecting not only methods of argumentation, conceptions of excellence, and social interactions at the workplace and learning experiences in the classroom, IMPLISITT directed its interventions towards structural and cultural changes in the field. These interventions seek to highlight the responsibilities that academic philosophers have in the different roles they play in sustaining the structure and in nourishing a culture of exclusion at many times indirectly and unconsciously.

While it is difficult to measure the immediate effects of interventions targeting structural and cultural changes, the outcomes of these interventions can be summarized in terms of new hirings of permanent staff, recruiting and retention of female students, and diversification of syllabi.

The main gain, however, comes from the pushing of boundaries for what is acceptable and not acceptable exclusion in the field. Beyond local changes, the most important outcome of the project is the joint publication together with the Prestige-project of the practical-oriented book Duarte, M., K. Losleben, and K. Fjørtoft (May 2023) Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation. Routledge (Open Access).

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Trine Antonsen

Senior Researcher - Tromsø

tria@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 78 88

Project facts

Name

IMPLISITT Avdekking av kjønnspartiskheter i filosofifaget

Status

CONCLUDED

Duration

01.01.21 - 31.01.23

Prosjekteier

UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Project members

Melina Dos Santos Duarte
Jennifer Clare Heyward
Anna Lovisa Anden
Annamari Eliisa Vitikainen
Jonas Jakobsen
Kaja Jenssen Rathe
Sara Toffanin
Mathea Slåttholm Sagdahl
Ida Johannessen
Tor Ivar Hanstad
Fredrik Nilsen
Kjersti Fjørtoft
Publications
Self-Respect – Tanyi, Attila. 2023, . UIT.
Sofie Charlotte av Preussen og kvinners handlingsrom i filosofien – Nilsen, Fredrik. 2022, Nordlit. UIT.
Diverse Perspectives on Science: Feminist Epistemology and Research Ethics – Duarte, Melina. 2022, . UIT.
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