Why you should support the Call to Action and Petition in Support of the GCC, too.

Equality of opportunity is not just an abstract ideal. Achieving justice requires concrete action. And both the quality of philosophical work and the relevance of philosophy to real problems -- which two goals are intimately related -- will be enhanced in proportion to our achievement of gender balance (balance also of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual preference, etc.) in the profession of philosophy.--Don Howard (Notre Dame)

The petition is here; the The most recent list with (over 600!) signatures is here; the call for action is here; the Gendered Conference Campaign is here.