“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.) Gender, Publications, Teaching, and Satisfaction in the Early Stages of a Philosophy Career by Travis LaCroix In our previous installments, we examined broad trends in the 2025 APDA Survey, including publication rates and teaching experience, and labour conditions and financial satisfaction across academic career stages. This post focuses specifically on gender and asks how publication and teaching patterns differ across the academic pipeline. The data suggest two broad conclusions. First, 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. Second, 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. At several points below, we discuss patterns involving respondents with non-normative gender identities. Because some individual categories had very small sample sizes, we aggregate these respondents into a broader “non-normative gender identity” category for statistical analysis. We do not report detailed statistics for categories with fewer than five respondents in order to reduce the risk of identification and to avoid over-interpreting unstable samples. The survey sample was distributed as follows: (Cisgender) Man : 723/1128; 64.10% (Cisgender) Woman : 337/1128; 29.88% Non-normative Gender Identity (combined) : 68/1128; 6.03% Trans Man : 8/1128; 0.71% Trans Woman : 6/1128; 0.53% Non-binary : 19/1128; 1.68% Trans Non-binary : 23/1128; 2.04% Other : 11/1128; 0.98% Trans Other : 1/1128; 0.09% Publication Patterns Across Career Stages We examined reported publication counts at three career stages: Current graduate students, At time of graduation, At first permanent academic hire. Because publication counts are..

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