Feminist scholars have begun to ask how existing
conceptual schemes and organizational structures in academic
disciplines have excluded women and feminist ideas, and to provide
suggestions for transformation. One strand of this work has
been the exploration of how canons of thought are constructed
in such fields as economics, sociology, and sociocultural
anthropology. This article begins such an investigation for
sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology by reviewing how
gender correlates with publication and citation over a 35-year
period (1965–2000) in five key journals, and in 16 textbooks
published in the 1990s. It describes some marked differences
in the publication of works by women and on gender in the five
journals, as well as some significant differences in the degree
to which men and women cite the work of women. It also considers
how the rate of publication of articles on sex, gender, and
women is correlated with publication of female authors. It
concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study
for changing institutional practices in our field.