A partial timeline of the Philosophy of Education Society’s Committee on Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women

The history of the Philosophy of Education Society’s Committee on Gender, Sexuality, and the Status of Women (CGSSW, formerly COSW) offers many interesting pathways into the field of philosophy of education and its related disciplines, from the most specific aspects of scholarship on education and gender to the most expansive debates about what defines philosophy of education in the first place. In this timeline, I hope to offer an incomplete entryway into some of the documents, records, and literature that may establish reference points for future work. Referring to published accounts and unpublished materials that were available to me, and frequently stitched together from different sources, I attempt to plot out the major events in the committee’s history and include references to the extensive work produced by committee members over the last 50 years.