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Participation of Men and Women in AERA: 1970 to 1978

Four years ago the Educational Researcher published a comprehensive study documenting the participation of women in a number of different activities associated with AERA (Lipman-Blumen, Stivers, Tickamyer, and Brainard, 1975). Among other results, that study showed increasing proportions of women presenting papers, both as primary and as secondary authors, over a ten year period, 1965 to 1975. In this paper, I will again survey the recent history of AERA in hopes of bringing to light some more specific trends which might help us to shape some picture of the future participation of women in AERA. I have restricted attention to papers presented at the Annual Meeting, because of the voluntary nature of these contributions as opposed to those where participants have been nominated or appointed. In addition, the submission of papers to the program is the most common activity of both men and women in the organization. The data presented are based on samples drawn randomly from the Annual Meeting program for alternate years beginning in 1970, the year before the passage in Congress of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Additional samples were also drawn from the various divisional programs in order to see how these have paralleled the trends in the larger organization.