Gender and scholarly productivity in Administration in social work, 1977-1995

The authors describe differences in the scholarly productivity of women and men who publish in Administration in Social Work, and test the explanatory power of the labor market segmentation theory applied to American higher e ducation. Statistically significant gender differences were observed (p < . 05) in publication rates, and the substantive focus of the articles publish ed alone, and when they collaborated with members of the same gender. All s tatistically significant differences disappeared when controlling for the m easure of th higher education labor market. These findings indicate that ge nder may be a surface cause, and not a real cause of observed differences i n scholarly productivity in the journal.