Gender ratios in International Journal of American Linguistics (women/overall)

This information is due to Keren Rice (March 2012):

The editorial board currently has three women and five men. I think that there were five women and three men originally. I found it a challenge to balance all the things that I needed to in asking people to be associate editors - gender, geographic area  in which they work, linguistic area in which they work. This particular group seems pretty balanced in terms of covering North America, Mexico, Central America and South America - this is a high priority. It is kind of weak on syntax/semantics though.

I'm just looking at gender balance in papers published.

78.2 1 woman, 4 men
78. 1 1 woman, 1 man, 1 co-authored - 4 men, 1 co-authored - 1 woman, 2 men

77.4 (special issue): 5 women, 2 men
77.3. 2 women, 2 men, 1 co-authored - 5 men
77.2 1 woman, 4 men
77.1 3 women, 1 man, 1 co-authored - 2 women

76.4 2 women, 2 co-authored by teams of men
76.3 1 woman, 1 co-authored - 1 woman, 1 man, 1 co-authored - 4 men
76.2 1 woman, 1 man, 1 co-authored - 1 woman, 1 man; 1 co-authored - 2 women
76.1 2 women, 2 men, 1 co-authored - 1 woman, 1 man

It is very interesting to look at this - thanks for contacting me. To have a full story, I would want to look at the submissions overall to see if more women are having papers revise and resubmit, what is going on with rejections, and so on. And also at reviewers.

Review is basically double-blind, except that, in a field like this, the reviewers often know who the author must be, and some authors want to be recognized. I ask that reviewers really try to review as though they don't know who the author is.