This has been a banner year for books, articles, editorials, panels, and discussions about women's issues in industry, government, and academia. Larry Summers' statement about women in science and mathematics was a catalyst for a flood of responses by women in academia. There were many seminars and editorials in universities across the nation. The recent book by Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, focused on the corporate world, and the recent Harvard Case Study on Gender Equity focused on inequities in academia (see The New York Times review, September8, 2013). The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) provided an analysis on die number of women authors in three of their journals (see Focus Oct/Nov 2012). The proportion of women members in MAA is about 25%, and the proportion of women authors in these journals is 72/583 = 12%. However, information about submission rates has not been gathered. I suggest editors of statistics journals begin to collect such data so as to try to determine the reason why women are not more visible as authors.
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