Traditionally, leadership scholars often study snapshots of leaders in organizations. However, academic publishing offers a unique, more controlled context to study leadership with implications for leadership scholars and scholarship. Hence, we present a descriptive overview of women’s representation across 33 years in 11 top management journals across levels of leaders in academic publishing (i.e., editors, associate editors, and editorial board members) and authors. To do so, we curated an archival dataset tracking women’s representation over time and across these four levels (i.e., 21,510 authors and 4,173 leaders) with 51,360 data entries for the authors and 320,545 for the leaders. Overall, women’s representation increased over time, which was explained by simple time trend effects. Only 32 of 135 editors were women (i.e., 23.7 %), and the share of women associate editors showed particularly drastic fluctuations. We did not observe a “leaky pipeline” except from the associate editor to editor step, as well as notable fluctuations—particularly after new editor appointments—and between journals. We discuss the influential roles editors and publishers have on women’s representation in academic publishing and science more broadly as well as implications for future research and policy.

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学术出版中的女性：33 年管理科学领域从作者到编辑的描述性趋势


传统上，领导力学者经常研究组织中领导者的快照。然而，学术出版提供了一个独特的、更可控的背景来研究领导力，对领导力学者和学术研究具有影响。因此，我们描述了 33 年来女性在 11 种顶级管理期刊中的代表性，涵盖学术出版领导者（即编辑、副主编和编委会成员）和作者的级别。为此，我们策划了一个档案数据集，跟踪女性在一段时间内和这四个级别（即 21,510 名作者和 4,173 名领导者）的代表性，其中包含作者的 51,360 个数据条目和领导者的 320,545 个数据条目。总体而言，女性的代表性随着时间的推移而增加，这可以用简单的时间趋势效应来解释。135 名编辑中只有 32 名是女性（即 23.7%），女性副编辑的比例波动特别剧烈。除了从副主编到编辑的阶段，以及显著的波动（尤其是在新编辑任命之后）和期刊之间，我们没有观察到“泄漏管道”。我们讨论了编辑和出版商对女性在学术出版和科学中的代表性所发挥的更广泛影响作用，以及对未来研究和政策的影响。