Evaluating AHRD research using a feminist research framework

Over 600 AHRD Proceedings papers from 1996 to 2000 were analyzed according to a feminist research framework. Although knowledge in HRD is being produced through both traditional and nontraditional methodologies, few studies recognize gender and race/ethnicity as a category of analysis. Nearly absent from the literature are studies concerned with women/diverse people's experience; asymmetrical power arrangements; problems of racism and sexism; and advocacy of social justice and change. Implications for research are discussed.