Examining the relationship between gender and the research productivity of IS faculty

Abstract

In this study, we examine whether there exist gender differences between the rates of scholarly publications by IS researchers. Triggered, in part, by a recent study of so-called "top" IS researchers that featured just two women out of the leading 30 IS scholars [24], we sought to determine whether women IS scholars publish at rates similar to their male counterparts in the leading, scholarly IS journals. Using a different "basket" of 12 IS journals, our results showed that, of IS researchers who had published at least three papers in these journals, approximately 17% were women -a figure that is slightly less than the 21% of women IS faculty that we estimated. We also found that women comprised 13 of the Top 76 IS researchers for the period 1999-2003 (17%), and 42 of the top 251 IS scholars with three of more publications in these journals (16.7% women). Our study raises several implications for how to assess whether women have achieved equity in the IS academic field.

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“…Further, a consistently low number of women in the field have published in top tier IS journals. Only 16.7 percent of the "Top 251" most productive researchers were women, and of the "Top 30" scholars, only three were women [Gallivan and Benbunan-Fich, 2006]. Though slightly higher than previous numbers, these low figures are troubling.…”

“…Investigations focused on the plight of female IS academics attempting to scale the ivory tower [Cyr and Reich, 1996;Gallivan and Benbunan-Fich, 2006] show some visible, as well as hidden, obstacles women encounter while manoeuvring through their careers. More guidance and support is needed to help IS women academics deal with these difficulties.…”