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The amount of research and publication completed by male and female faculty was compared over 3 years with a sample of 56 male and 40 female physical education faculty in the Big Ten Universities. Male faculty members published significantly more articles in unreferred journals, received significantly more reductions in teaching loads to do research, developed significantly more sources of funding for continued research, and attended more seminars designed to improve advising. Female faculty members attended significantly more seminars to improve their communication skills leading to improved teaching. Five recommendations were offered to improve the research and scholarly skills of women faculty, including: fighting stereotypic thinking and role assignments; establishing a mentor system to promote research, publication, and grant writing; and developing a network of colleagues to edit manuscripts and women editors to request them. The study also determined that women were as interested in research as the men respondents and had similar rates of tenure as men, although women had significantly lower academic rank than men in the present study. (SW)