Certain Doubts has a post up, with the link to a list of women working in epistemology drafted by Trent Dougherty. He also asks for suggestions of additions to the list, and notices that similar initiatives for other subfields of philosophy would be much welcome. I maintain such a list of women working in philosophy of logic and philosophical logic (though at times it takes me a while to update it!), and I second Trent's suggestion that this be done for other subfields. As he puts it,
I suspect that one of the most common sources of women being under-represented [...] at conferences and in edited volumes [...] is the “comes to mind” bias. One way to counteract this is to “double check.”
Such lists can definitely be a significant "double check" aid. So for those of you who work in epistemology or are well-acquainted with the field (not my case), do go check it out and make suggestions over at Certain Doubts.
In comments, Rachael Briggs notices that it would be useful to have a general 'list of lists', otherwise it is not always easy to find them when you need them. She suggests enlisting the PhilPapers conglomerate, which strikes me as an excellent idea.
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