Although last year’s call for proposals for becoming the editor of Ethics led many to assume that I must by now have long been sitting back and taking it easy, I’ll actually remain in the saddle until the end of June. While my feelings about relinquishing this rewarding and demanding role are mixed, those about my successors are not. I am thoroughly delighted to announce that on July 1, 2018, the editorship of Ethics passes to Julia Driver and Connie Rosati, acting as coeditors. Each has long been doing a superlative job as an associate editor of the journal, generously devoting her time to evaluating papers andwriting comments. I look forward to great things from the journal under their leadership. I know that one of the things that they would like to do is to redouble the journal’s efforts to attract work by female authors and authors of color. This editorial’s further announcements pertain to the first of these two priorities. With the strong backing of Julia, Connie, and the other editors, I am implementing two steps designed indirectly to aid the cause of reducing gender imbalance in philosophy publishing. First, to increase transparency and general understanding, I here publish for the first time the statistics that we have been collecting, for our internal use, on the genders of our submitting authors and those of the authors whose papers we end up publishing. The second step is to improve the quality of this data so as to facilitate analyses using it.Our determinations of authors’ genders have hitherto rested mainly on first names, occasionally supplemented by internet searches. We have added a required field in which each submitting author will be asked to indicate their gender however they like. By not imposing a list of categories, we will avoid forcing anyone to choose among options none of which they accept, and we will collect, over time, a set of data that, I am told, not only will be more accurate than what we have been gathering but also will allow for answering the broadest range of queries. Because none of our editors ever see personal information about any paper’s authors until after the final decision—irrevocable rejection

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公告：性别统计——以及高层的变化

尽管去年关于成为 Ethics 编辑的提案征集让许多人认为我现在必须长期坐下来放松一下，但实际上我会一直待在马鞍上直到 6 月底。虽然我对放弃这个有益且要求很高的角色的感觉好坏参半，但对我的继任者的感觉却并非如此。我非常高兴地宣布，2018 年 7 月 1 日，Ethics 的编辑权移交给了 Julia Driver 和 Connie Rosati，担任共同编辑。长期以来，每个人都担任该期刊的副主编，并慷慨地投入时间评估论文和撰写评论。我期待着在他们的领导下该杂志的伟大事业。我知道他们想做的一件事就是加倍努力吸引女性作者和有色人种作者的作品。本社论的进一步公告涉及这两个优先事项中的第一个。在 Julia、Connie 和其他编辑的大力支持下，我正在实施两个间接设计的步骤，以帮助减少哲学出版中的性别失衡。首先，为了提高透明度和普遍理解，我在这里首次公布了我们一直在收集的统计数据，供我们内部使用，关于提交作者和我们最终发表论文的作者的性别。第二步是提高这些数据的质量，以便于使用它进行分析。迄今为止，我们对作者性别的确定主要依赖于名字，偶尔会辅以互联网搜索。我们添加了一个必填字段，其中每个提交的作者都会被要求指明他们喜欢的性别。通过不强加类别列表，我们将避免强迫任何人在他们不接受的选项中进行选择，并且随着时间的推移，我们将收集一组数据，据我所知，这些数据不仅会比我们的数据更准确一直在收集，但也将允许回答最广泛的查询。因为在做出最终决定之前，我们的编辑都不会看到任何论文作者的个人信息——不可撤销的拒绝 不仅会比我们收集的内容更准确，而且还可以回答最广泛的查询。因为在做出最终决定之前，我们的编辑都不会看到任何论文作者的个人信息——不可撤销的拒绝 不仅会比我们收集的内容更准确，而且还可以回答最广泛的查询。因为在做出最终决定之前，我们的编辑都不会看到任何论文作者的个人信息——不可撤销的拒绝