Women in the experimental analysis of behavior.

Bennett et al. (1998) counted every author and editor in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior from 1978 to 1997.

They compared those numbers with three other behavior-analytic journals to see if women’s share was rising or stalling.

Women’s authorship and editorial spots in JEAB crept up over the twenty years, but stayed lower than in the comparison journals.

The gap closed only a little, leaving men still holding most pages and power.

Palya (1993) saw the same glass ceiling across the whole ABA convention and editorial boards five years earlier, so the new data show the pattern is stubborn, not shrinking.

Curiel et al. (2023) picked up the same JEAB pages and tracked them through 2020, finding North-American dominance stayed sky-high; together the two papers say the journal has twin diversity problems—gender and geography.

Logan et al. (2000) mapped top intellectual-disabilities researchers and also found most were male; the 1998 JEAB count fits that wider picture of who gets cited and who gets heard.

If you recruit speakers, reviewers, or co-authors, open the invite list beyond the usual names. Track the gender and affiliation of your own citations for one month—small visibility choices add up to a fairer field.