Gender Differences in Publications by Promoted Faculty.

Abstract Concerns have been expressed about the treatment of female faculty in academic accounting departments. A significant proportion of women faculty have indicated that it is more difficult for a woman to be promoted than it is for an equally qualified man. in this paper, we examine the publication productivity of 281 accounting faculty promoted to the rank of associate professor at AACSB accredited institutions over the six-year period of 1989 to 1994. Our results indicate that there are significant gender differences in the publication productivity of promoted faculty at non-doctoral, AACSB accredited institutions. Specifically, promoted female faculty had more publications than did promoted male faculty. Such differences persisted across a variety of publication measures. However, there were no differences when comparing male and female faculty promoted at doctoral institutions.