Gender ratios in Linguistic Inquiry (women/overall)*

Updated January 29, 2006

Of the 33 volumes available on the web, 2 have 50% or more of women authors. This is particularly shocking given that NLLT is doing much better (this might or might not be due to the fact that at least some of LI reviewing is not anonymous).
Fortunately, it looks like the situation is improving because in the earlier volumes the ratios are lower than in the later ones (graphs to come)

Compare these ratios to overall results for Women in Linguistics

issue:

single author

co-authored

publications overall
Volume 37 Number 1: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion (distribution unknown)
2/3

0/5
1/2+1/3

1/2
5/15
Volume 36 Number 4: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
1/3
1/1
 
1/2

1/2+2/2
6/10
Volume 36 Number 3: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
0/3

1/1
2/2

0/2+0/2+0/2
3/12
Volume 36 Number 2: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion

0/2
0/3
1/2+0/2+2/2

 
3/11
Volume 36 Number 1: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
0/2

1/4
1/2
1/2
 
3/10
Volume 35 Number 4: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
0/1
0/2
1/3
1/2
0/2
0/2
2/12
Volume 35 Number 3: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
0/2
0/1
2/3

0/2
0/2+0/2
2/12
Volume 35 Number 2: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
0/1
1/3
0/2
2/2
0/2
1/2
4/12
Volume 35 Number 1: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
1/1
0/1
0/2
1/2
1/2
1/2+0/2
4/12
Volume 34 Number 4: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
1/2

3/4
0/2

0+?(Park, Myung-Kwan)/2
4 or 5/10
Volume 34 Number 3: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
1/1
0/1
1/3
1/2+1/2+1/2+1/2

 
6/14
Volume 34 Number 2: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
1/2
0/1
0/2
1/2
0/2
0/2
2/11
Volume 34 Number 1: main articles
Remarks and Replies
Squibs and Discussion
0/3

1+?(Xu, Liejiong)/2

0/2
0/2
1 or 2/9
Volume 33 Number 4: main articles
Squibs and Discussion/Remarks and Replies:
0/1
2/4
0/1
0/1+0/1
2/8
Volume 33 Number 3: main articles
Squibs and Discussion/Remarks and Replies:
0/1
3/4
1/2 + 2/2
 
6/9
Volume 33 Number 2:
Squibs and Discussion/Remarks and Replies:
0/1
0/3
0/2+1/2+0/2
 
1/10
Volume 33 Number 1:
Squibs and Discussion/Remarks and Replies:
0/3
1/3
1/2
 
2/8

Volume 32 Number 4 (unsorted)

1/7

0/2+?(Iksan Park)/2

1 or 2/11

Volume 32 Number 3 (unsorted)

0/5

1/3 + ?(Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh)/2 + 0/2

1 or 2/12

Volume 32 Number 2 (unsorted)

0/3

2/2+1/2

3/7

Volume 32 Number 1 (unsorted)

0/4

0/4+0/4 + 0/2 + 0/2

0/16

Volume 31 Number 4 (unsorted)

1/7

1/3

2/10

Volume 31 Number 3 (unsorted)

1/8

0/3

1/11

Volume 31 Number 2 (unsorted)

2/7

  2/7

Volume 31 Number 1 (unsorted)

2/6

3/5+0/2+0/2

5/15

Volume 30 Number 4 (unsorted)

1/5

1/2 + 0/2 + 0/2+ 0/3+0/2

2/16

Volume 30 Number 3 (unsorted)

1/4

4/6 + 1/2 + 0/2 + 0/2 + 2/3

6/19

Volume 30 Number 2 (unsorted)

3/8

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3/8

Volume 30 Number 1 (unsorted)

1/5

0/2 + 1/2 + 1/2

3/11

Volume 29 Number 4 (unsorted)

2/5

0/2 + 0/2+0/2

2/11

Volume 29 Number 3 (unsorted)

2/7 0/2+0/2 2/11

Volume 29 Number 2 (unsorted)

1/5 0/2+0/2 1/9

Volume 29 Number 1 (unsorted)

1/8   1/8

*Guesses and doubts indicated by "?"

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