Women’s share of articles in Persian language Journals of library and Information Science published between 1968-1999

Parsaei Mohammadi,, Parastoo; Zareh Farashbandi, Firoozeh

Women’s share of articles in Persian language Journals of library and Information Science published between 1968-1999

Volume 14, Issue 3 - Serial Number 54
Autumn 2010

Pages 49-67

Research on Information Science and Public Libraries

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Parastoo Parsaei Mohammadi, ¹

Firoozeh Zareh Farashbandi ²

¹ Faculty Member, Department of Medical Library and Information Science, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz

² Faculty member, Department of Medical Library and Information Science, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, PhD student in Library and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

Abstract

Women constitute 48.42% of the Iranian population. They could be considered as one of the factors effectively contributing to development. In addition to the traditional major role they have in family and society growth, women also play a high-profile role in scientific and research areas. To clearly define the real status of women within the society, their issues must be investigated. One source for such investigations is the works written by women. The present investigation is a survey that aims at studying women’s article contribution in seven LIS journals between 1968 and 1999. Findings indicated that the articles contributed by the women comprise 495 or 34.83% of the total articles surveyed. Of 958 articles authored, 31.32% and of 463 articles translated, 42.12% were produced by women. The highest rate of contribution had been in 1997 with 56 titles. It is concluded that like other fields, women contribution to LIS journals in the period spanning 1968 to 1999 was on the rise as like other fields.

Keywords

Women

Authorship

Translation

Library and Information Science

Periodicals

Persian articles

Iran