A Fifteen-Year Census of Gender-Based Convention Research: Scholarship Rates by Women within AEJMC Divisions,Interest Groups,and Commissions (1994 to 2008)

Abstract

This study considers refereed scholarship and levels of inclusion by gender within and between AEJMC's divisions, interest groups, and commissions. It is a census of all blindly reviewed research accepted to the AEJMC conventions from 1994 to 2003. Women are authoring convention research at rates (49.2%) above their percentage of membership in AEJMC (between 40% in 2002 and 44.6% in 2010). Women currently author a majority of the convention scholarship on issues related to cultural and critical studies (60.8%); they have drastically increased their participation in research related to media management and economics.