Scholarship Rates of Women within AEJMC Divisions, Interest Groups, and Commissions (1994-2003)

Applegate, Edd, Bodle, John V., Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

This study considers refereed scholarship and levels of inclusion by gender within and among AEJMC's divisions, interest groups, and commissions. It is a census of all blindly reviewed research accepted to AEJMC conventions from 1994 to 2003. Women are authoring convention research at rates (42.9%) comparable to their percentage of membership in AEJMC (40%). Women author a majority of the convention scholarship on public relations and magazines; little on media management and economics, international, or communication theory and methodology.

Women seem to be making progress-be it slow-toward the goal set by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) …

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Publication information: Article title: Scholarship Rates of Women within AEJMC Divisions, Interest Groups, and Commissions (1994-2003). Contributors: Applegate, Edd - Author, Bodle, John V. - Author. Journal title: Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Volume: 60. Issue: 2 Publication date: Summer 2005. Page number: 150+. © Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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