Sex Roles: An Up-to-Date Gender Journal with an Outdated Name

Abstract

I come to Sex Roles: A Journal of Research as only its fifth editor across its 41-year-old history, following Editors Katz (1975–1990); Zalk (1991–2001); Chrisler (2002–2006), and Frieze (2007–2015). Like most incoming editors, I want to build on the scholarship and practices these past editors have so expertly nurtured, as well as keep the journal at the cutting edge of our fields. I come to this position with my own track-record as the former editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly (2010–2015). Although I certainly acknowledge that where my term as editor of Sex Roles will ultimately take me is necessarily unknown, at this launching point I do have some (a) general directions and (b) practiced and projected practices that I want to share here with prospective contributors to the journal, including authors and reviewers.