MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 3, SINCE FROM CORRESPONDENCE IT IS CLEAR SOME PEOPLE MISSED THIS

There is no evidence we have ever seen that the gender of the evaluator affects the evaluations.  About 16% of full-time philosophy faculty in the U.S. are women, and about 14% of the evaluators for the 2014 PGR were women.  More than 14% of those invited to be evaluators were women, though I have not counted precisely (there were 560 invitees)–based on sampling a couple hundred names, it looks to have been about 18%.  My impression has been for many years that women respond to the invitation to be evaluators at a slightly lower rate than men (I'm not sure why), and this may have been particularly true this year (I don't know for sure) given that the September smear campaign included a website that falsely claimed that I had criticized more women than men (the site containing that libel is now gone).  I am sure Brit Brogaard, as the co-editor for 2014 and editor thereafter, would welcome ideas about increasing female participation rates which, as noted, have always been somewhat lower than that of men.