 The notion of objectivity has a number of traditional connotations—including disinterest (detachment, lack of bias) and universality (independence from any particular perspective or viewpoint)—which are commonly associated with knowledge of a mind-independent world. Feminist critiques are almost unanimous in rejecting scientific objectivity in the sense of disinterest, offering case studies that aim to demonstrate how the presence of (for example) androcentric bias in a scientific community can lead to the acceptance of one theory at the expense of alternatives (Kourany 2010: chs. 1–3; for detailed cases, see Longino 1990: ch. 6 and Lloyd 2006). Arguably, the failure of objectivity in this sense is consistent with realism under certain conditions. For example, if the relevant bias is epistemically neutral (that is, if one’s assessment of scientific evidence is not influenced by it one way or another), then realism may remain at least one viable interpretation of the outputs of scientific work. In the more interesting case where bias is epistemically consequential, the prospects for realism are diminished, but may be enhanced by a scientific infrastructure that functions to bring it under scrutiny (by means of, for example, effective peer review, genuine consideration of minority views, etc.), thus facilitating corrective measures where appropriate. The contention that the sciences do not generally exemplify such an infrastructure is one motivation for the normativity of much feminist empiricism.