VAD is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in all its activities. It promotes a balanced presence of women and men, and of different countries and institutions, on its editorial bodies and among its reviewers. It accepts papers in Spanish and English. It rejects any discrimination on the grounds of gender, origin, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
VAD is committed to maintaining at least 40% women on its editorial bodies and among the people who review manuscripts, and publishes these data every year. Data as of 16 October 2026.
| Body | Women | Men | % women |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direction | 0 | 1 | 0 % |
| Editor-in-chief | 1 | 0 | 100 % |
| Editorial Board | 6 | 2 | 75 % |
| Scientific Committee | 13 | 16 | 45 % |
| Advisory Board | 4 | 2 | 67 % |
| Total | 24 | 21 | 53 % |
| Year | Women | Men | % women |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | 10 | 41 % |
| 2020 | 14 | 19 | 42 % |
| 2021 | 15 | 18 | 45 % |
| 2022 | 8 | 15 | 35 % |
| 2023 | 5 | 7 | 42 % |
| 2024 | 7 | 5 | 58 % |
| 2025 | 6 | 9 | 40 % |
| Distinct people, 2019-2025 | 43 | 47 | 48 % |
Reviewers who review in several years are counted once per year. The list of names is in the Editorial history.
Authors shall avoid sexist, discriminatory or stereotyping language. Where the work includes personal data or images of identifiable people, authors shall obtain their consent or anonymise the information, in accordance with data protection legislation.
Where relevant to the subject of study (users of architecture and the city, surveys or interviews, authorship of works and projects), authors should consider sex and gender in the design, analysis and discussion of results and report sex-disaggregated data, following the SAGER guidelines.
This text corresponds to section 2.10 of the Guide to Good Practice.