Randy, Submissions to the Research are a voluntary process, so the issue to be posed is "Has there been discrimination or lack of affirmative action regarding articles submitted?", not just for this issue by 14 prior issues. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that women and minority authors have submitted articles, that I cannot say that those articles on average have been of any different average quality than articles by white males, and I am sure that the acceptance rate is quite similar, maybe higher. I don't know if you are familiar with a list begun last Fall entitled Outline of Political Economy, precisely on Marxist theoretical issues--the same as this particular issue of the Research. There are about 40 persons on the list and only one woman (as far as I can tell from first names). I know that the list coordinator Jerry Levy made a quite serious effort to get women to join the list. I don't know the gender distribution of Pen-L but it would be interesting to know. For the Research, the maximum number of female authors in one issue is three, two is not uncommon, but zero is more common. If you or anyone else would like to propose to me a special issue written by women and/or minorities, I would be delighted (this is not just a throw-away comment!). I have one already accepted for the next issue which should fit in to most proposals. Randy, what would you do if you were me? It ain't so easy. In any case, thanks for raising an important question. Paul Zarembka On Fri, 24 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was struck by the fact that _Research in Political Economy, Vol. 15_ did not > have one single article authored by a women. IAFFE has been taking straight > publishers to task on the non-inclusion of women in Handbook series on > economics and it seems to me that leftist should be held to at least the same > heat. > > Randy Albelda
