Not sure if this is the case, but I'd like to play devils advocate. While most venues are double blind, it is still possible there is a subconscious gender bias

Not sure if this is the case, but I'd like to play devils advocate. While most venues are double blind, it is still possible there is a subconscious gender bias. Many studies have shown that gender can be readily detected from anonymized authors based style alone. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-0310 https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-0310 http://cs224d.stanford.edu/reports/BartleAric.pdf http://cs224d.stanford.edu/reports/BartleAric.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050916326849 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705091...