Just how hard is it for women to get published?

Not as hard as it is to *believe* that she has had work published, apparently:

Female philosopher with gender ambiguous name gets published. In editorial, she is referred to as ‘he’.

Presumably the editors were made aware of their mistake, as in the current issue the editorial contains this helpful note:

Image of the first page of the fulltext

 
[Some people are having trouble with the image, the editorial from the current issue of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. The key bit reads: “We have to rectify a mistake. In the editorial of this volume’s issue 3, we unjustly assumed that Jules Holroyd is a female. He is not. Our sincere apologies.]

Sigh. ‘he’ or ‘she’. if it isn’t ‘he’…

A cry out for gender neutral pronouns?