Aileen Fyfe · @aileenfyfe
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... though I'm a bit worried about the current situation if it's really true that the proportion of women authors in Transactions of was at its highest in the 1920s.

If true, then this starkly demonstrates the implicit bias (and preference for 'people like us') operating in closed-community journal systems (as had until allowing direct submissions in 2021)

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Aileen Fyfe · @aileenfyfe
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interested in the history of publishing in our discipline might enjoy these thoughts on 150 years of Transactions of the
blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/11/

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