Gender ratios in Natural Language Semantics (women/overall)*

I refrain from providing the statistics for the entire online history of the journal because that would be misleading: as can be easily observed below, while for the first 11 years (1997-2007) female authors constituted about 50%, in the last four years their number plummeted dramatically (to 21%). Angelika Kratzer, when I asked her, supplied me with the following information (March 2012):

I looked at all the rejections for our journal since November 2006. There were 69. Out of those 69 manuscripts, 49, hence 70%, were by male authors (I checked webpages, Facebook etc. in those cases where the gender of the author was not obvious from the name). 

We currently have 21 papers out for revisions. Out of those, 11 are by male authors.

The statistics are for the issues available on the Springer website
Only research articles are included

Compare these ratios to overall results for Women in Linguistics

issue single author co-authored publications overall
1997, 5:1 2/3   2/3
1997, 5:2 1/2 1/2 2/4
1997, 5:3 2/2 1/2 3/4
1998, 6:1 1/2 2/2 3/4
1998, 6:2   0/2+1/2+0/2 1/6
1998, 6:3 0/3   0/3
1998, 6:4 0/1   0/1
1999, 7:1 2/2   2/2
1999, 7:2 0/3   0/3
1999, 7:3 1/1 1/2 2/3
1999, 7:4 1/2   1/2
2000, 8:1 1/2   1/2
2000, 8:2 2/2   2/2
2000, 8:3 1/2   1/2
2000, 8:4 0/2 2/2+1/2 3/6
2001, 9:1 1/3   1/3
2001, 9:2 2/2   2/2
2001, 9:3 1/2   1/2
2001, 9:4 1/2   1/2
2002, 10:1 1/2   1/2
2002, 10:2 1/1 1/2 2/3
2002, 10:3 0/2   0/2
2002, 10:4 2/2   2/2
2003, 11:1 2/2   2/2
2003, 11:2 1/3   1/3
2003, 11:3 0/2 1/2 1/4
2003, 11:4 1/1 0/2 1/3
2004, 12:1 0/3   0/3
2004, 12:2 2/2   2/2
2004, 12:3   1/2+1/2 2/4
2004, 12:4 2/3   2/3
2005, 13:1 0/1   0/1
2005, 13:2 1/2 1/2 2/4
2005, 13:3 1/1 1/2 2/3
2005, 13:4 1/3   1/3
2006, 14:1 1/2   1/2
2006, 14:2 2/2 1/2 3/4
2006, 14:3 1/2   1/2
2006, 14:4 1/3 1/2 2/5
2007, 15:1 2/2 0/2 2/4
2007, 15:2 1/3   1/3
2007, 15:3 2/3   2/3
2007, 15:4 1/3   1/3
Subtotal 45/88 = 51% 16/32 = 50% 61/120 = 51%
2008, 16:1 1/3   1/3
2008, 16:2 0/3 1/3 1/6
2008, 16:3 1/1 2/4 3/5
2008, 16:4 0/3 1/3 1/6
2009, 17:1 0/3   0/3
2009, 17:2 1/3   1/3
2009, 17:3 0/3   0/3
2009, 17:4 0/3   0/3
2010, 18:1 2/3 1/2 3/5
2010, 18:2 1/3 0/2 1/5
2010, 18:3 2/2   2/2
2010, 18:4 0/1 0/2+1/2 1/5
2011, 19:1 0/1 0/2+0/2 0/5
2011, 19:2 0/4   0/4
2011, 19:3 1/1 0/4 1/5
2011, 19:4 0/2 1/2 1/4
2012, 20:1      
Subtotal 2 9/40 = 23% 8/40 = 20% 17/80 = 21%
Total 54/128 = 42% 24/72 = 33% 78/200 = 39%

NALS contains two articles co-authored solely by women (in 1998 and 2000), and eight articles co-authored solely by men (two in 1998, one in 2003, one in 2007, two in 2010 and one, with four authors, in 2011), which gives us 22% for women in single gender co-authored articles, much less than the 50% for the first 11 years documented and slightly less than the 20% ratio in the last four years. However, (a) both articles by women were published before 2008 (i.e., in the last four years not a single article co-authored by women was published), but (b) the total numbers are too small to argue either for the preference for female authors in the first 11 years or the preference for male authors in the last four.
*Guesses and doubts indicated by "?"

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