This paper with primary authors Toni Adleberg and Morgan Thompson will come out in Philosophical Psychology and a prepublication draft is here (abstract below). In addition to presenting our failure to replicate Buckwalter & Stich's results, we also present an extensive literature search we did on gender differences in x-phi and psych papers studying philosophical intuitions. We found that most people do not seem to be testing for such effects, and of those who do, few found any. But this would be a good place to ask if people have tested for gender differences they haven't reported (and if so, whether or not they found any), or if we missed some that have been reported in published work.

Thompson, Adleberg, Sam Sims, and I are currently analyzing the data from our second climate survey of Intro to Phil students at Georgia State to see if we can find other explanations for why women (and black students) disproportionately choose not to take more philosophy classes or major in philosophy. We'll let you know what we find.

Abstract: To address the underrepresentation of women in philosophy effectively, we must understand the causes of the loss of women after their initial philosophy classes. In this paper we challenge one of the few explanations that has focused on why women might leave philosophy at early stages. Wesley Buckwalter and Stephen Stich (2014) offer some evidence that women have different intuitions than men about philosophical thought experiments. We present some concerns about their evidence and we discuss our own study, in which we attempted to replicate their results for 23 different responses (intuitions or judgments) to 14 scenarios (thought experiments). We also conducted a literature search to see if other philosophers or psychologists have tested for gender differences in philosophical intuitions. Based on our findings, we argue that that it is unlikely that gender differences in intuitions play a significant role in driving women from philosophy.