Name Five Women In Philosophy. Bet You Can't.

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11. I don't think the bias is in philosophy. It's within societies.

It isn't always, or even most of the time, just a matter of whether someone has an idea and the ability to see it through to completion. It's almost invariably the case that sufficient patronage is the deciding factor. Darwin, for example, had sufficient patronage, in a field where less favored upstarts were also developing the ideas of natural evolution. In that case, in those days, the advantage didn't just lie with the male gender, but also with social station and patrons within political/academic society.