Gender and Journal Scholarship in Mass Communication: How Well are Women Doing? A Twenty-Year Content Analysis

A census of authorship (N = 9,090 articles produced by 14,348 gender-identified authors) in eighteen primary journalism and mass communication journals during 1986–2005 indicates that over the time period women produced 32.3% of the journal scholarship—a per capita rate greater than their numeric representation on journalism and mass communication faculties nationally. In recent years (2001–2005) women produced 38.7% of journal scholarship while representing about 32% of faculty. Female assistant professors produced the most (31.2%) journal scholarship.