Being-from-Birth

Women are underrepresented in philosophy. And pregnancy is under-researched Can a connection be made between the two? I will argue that whilst counterfactual of ‘had women historically been better represented philosophy then would have too’ may true, it not necessarily case we can now, present day, expect (or desire) correlation. In order to understand gap these two areas underrepresentation, one need only adopt non- essentialist understanding so as recognise all experience or interested (philosophically otherwise). Nevertheless, given historical silence(ing) on topic pregnancy, important now redress imbalance by tackling both issues underrepresentation simultaneously. To demonstrate further refer difference representational diversity and substantive (which related more commonly known distinction descriptive representation representation). This first section paper. Then, second third sections paper explore misrepresentation philosophy, regarding lack numerically speaking but also how women, general ‘kind’, (misogynistically) described historically. apply same treatment fourth fifth paper, exploring its philosophical endeavour within society at large. The analysis contains review literature, cites statistical quantitative data qualitative grounded interviews, provide evidence for my claims. end hypothesising about relationship under- mis- representations, musings future