New data on the representation of women in philosophy journals: 2004–2015 Isaac Wilhelm 1 • Sherri Lynn Conklin 2 • Nicole Hassoun 3,4 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 Abstract This paper presents new data on the representation of women who publish in 25 top philosophy journals as ranked by the Philosophical Gourmet Report (2015) for the years 2004, 2014, and 2015. It also provides a new analysis of Schwitzge- bel’s 1955–2015 journal data (women-in-philosophy.org). The paper makes four points while providing an overview of the current state of women authors in phi- losophy. In all years and for all journals, the percentage of female authors was extremely low, in the range of 14–16%. The percentage of women authors is less than the percentage of women faculty in different ranks and at different kinds of institutions. In addition, there is great variation across individual journals, and the discrepancy between women authors and women faculty appears to be different in different subfields. Interestingly, journals which do not practice anonymous review seem to have a higher percentage of women authors than journals which practice double anonymous or triple anonymous review. This paper also argues that we need more data on academic publishing to better understand whether this can explain why there are so few full-time female faculty in philosophy, since full-time hiring and tenuring practices presumably depend on a candidate’s academic publishing. & Sherri Lynn Conklin conklin.sherri@gmail.com Isaac Wilhelm isaac.wilhelm@rutgers.edu 1 Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 106 Somerset St., 5th Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08904, USA 2 Department of Philosophy, University of California Santa Barbara, 5631 South Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA 3 Hope and Optimism Project, Cornell University, 218 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3201, USA 4 Department of Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA 123 Philos Stud DOI 10.1007/s11098-017-0919-0