Journal of Anomalistics Volume 22 (2022), pp. 274–279 Editorial Editorial: Delayed Start of a Project Gerhard Mayer 1 Along with guest editor Cedar Leverett, I was on the train returning to Germany from the 2019 Parapsychological Association Congress in Paris. We were reviewing the event, and she mentioned her observation of the dominance of male presenters on the stage. My response was perhaps typically masculine, pointing out the unequal gender balance in membership of the Parapsychological Association and the possibility of paper submissions that would apply equally to women. I have also pointed out the difculties in fnding women willing to apply for the board of directors of the German Gesellschaf für Anomalistik [Society for Anomalistics], of which I am the executive director. But Cedar was not really satisfed with my response. She began her research on women and parapsychology and I added the conference proceedings of the 1991 conference Women and Parapsychology, held in Dublin, Ireland, and organized by the Parapsychology Foundation, to her list of publications to read, along with references to other historic women in parapsychology, e.g. Peter Mulacz’s paper on the Eleonore Zugun case (Mulacz, 1999) and Ina Schmied-Knittel’s work on Fanny Moser (Schmied-Knittel, 2022, this issue). Cedar suggested that I do a special issue on this topic, since I am the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Journal of Anomalistics / Zeitschrif für Anomalistik. Tinking about it, I was hesitant and rather dismissive. Two objections came to mind. (1) Good science is not gender specifc per se. So why talk about topics such as feminist methodol- ogy in science and things like that? (2) Is a journal’s readership genuinely interested in such a topic? Tese concerns and other pressing projects made it easy to let the topic fade into the background. In 2021 there were some changes with the journal. It became bilingual, got a new cover and an English translation of the German title. Additionally, the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) became co-publisher. At that point, we entered into 1 Gerhard Mayer is a psychologist and research associate at the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg i. Br.; responsible editor of the Journal for Anomalistics, since 2012 president director of the Gesellschaf für Anomalistik, and since 2022 vice president of the Para- psychological Association. E-mail: mayer@anomalistik.de http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.274