HOW MANY ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE?

A LOOK AT PERFORMANCE OF GRADUATED WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS IN BRAZIL BETWEEN YEARS 2000 AND 2016

Abstract

Empirically, it is noticeable that the philosophy carried out in Brazil is notably masculine due to the majority presence of men in education and in the labor market. There is very little research on this situation and this fact is largely due to the difficulty of collecting and crossing data. In 2017/2018, I took part in a professional team that was respondibl to prepare ENADE’s Evidence Technical Report and other sources – changes in the profile of the graduated philosophers, published by the Cesgranrio Foundation. For the preparation of this document, data from INEP, CAPES, IBGE and the socio-economic profile of ENADE graduates (2004 to 2014) were used. It had made visible the evolution in the offer of undergraduate degrees in Philosophy, from 2000 to 2016, based on the number of courses offered in the universities, considered different categories, and also the advance of the presence of the genders at those institutions. It also reported on the professional performance of the graduates and on the average income by occupation groups and gender. So, the aim of this paper is to present data on the advance of the distribution of the genders in undergraduate courses between 2000 and 2015 and on the professional performance of women graduating from these courses and graduate courses; and comment on them from the perspective of the relationship between philosophy and gender, in order to contribute to the understanding of how the female presence is found in professional philosophy held in Brazil, with regard to training and professional performance.