Gender in Linguistics (women/overall)*

Gender distribution in various sub-areas of linguistics

• Among faculty at various linguistics departments (last updated in March 2006)

• The proportion of women authors in NLLT (last updated January 29, 2006) and in LI (last updated January 29, 2006) - strikingly, there is a serious difference
  See also the same info for the less prestigious Journal of Linguistics (created January 29, 2006)

• Conference and colloquia speakers, summer school professors
  Most recently added (November 3, 2003): Sinn und Bedeutung 9

Gender proportions at the CNRS

if you can't read French, here are the statistics for December 31, 2000:

• permanent personnel: 25,003, of which 10 565 women, i.e. 42.25 % (42.37% for 1991/12/31), of which
• researchers: 11 409, of which 3 462 femmes, i.e. 30.34 % (32.12% for 1991/12/31), of which
• research directors: 20.7%

In my lab, UMR 7023:

• CNRS people: 4/8
• Faculty: 8/16 (permanent members only)

Links

• Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics
• Women and work bibliography
• Educational pipeline issues for women (discusses women's status in graduate schools and mentions MIT)
• Women in Canadian Academia (annual reports by the Canadian federation of social sciences and humanities. A summary only.

General feminism issues that interest me

• The Aquatic Ape Theory

*Credits: Many thanks to Jill Beckman, Jonathan Bobalijk, Line Hove Mikkelsen, Jay Rifkin and Sabine Iatridou for suggestions and information.

To be continued...