In the last few months, there has a been a fair bit of discussion on Phonolist (an email newsletter/blog about all things phonological) about gender representation at conferences, with a specific focus on presenters and question askers. Although this discussion is specifically about phonology conferences, it speaks to a topic that is relevant in linguistics (and academia) more broadly. We'll read a few of the very short and interesting blog entries on this topic from Phonolist.

Since these are short pieces, I'm also suggesting that you look at the most recent report by the LSA about the State of Linguistics in Higher Ed. This report contains a lot of interesting information, but particularly relevant for our meeting on Friday, it contains information about the gender participation in the field. Some of the pages with the most relevant information on this topic include: 7, 10, 11, 12, 15.