Gendered Patterns in Academic Authorship: Examples from the Management Information Systems Discipline

What is the secret to a successful career in academia? Is that secret different for a woman than it is for a man? This study focuses on whether male and female academics have distinctive patterns of representation as authors in top management information systems journals. Archival data, consisting of author information, article information, and editorial board gender composition, was collected for two journals, MIS Quarterly and Journal of Management Information Systems. Consistent with previous research findings, preliminary results suggest that females represent a disproportionately small minority of authors in both of these two top MIS journals.