According to YouTube, a whopping 92% of my viewers are male. That's pretty disconcerting to me, although I wonder:
(1) How accurate these statistics are, given that surely almost nobody tells Google their gender.
(2) What the overall gender distribution on YouTube is.
I could certainly do more videos about women philosophers (although the epistemology course I'm currently making features a good number of contemporary female philosophers), but it seems unlikely to remove this massive gap.
Victor Gijsbers /
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