This study examined the response of higher education to the increased presence of women in the academy through an investigation of academic literature. A feminist framework was used to guide the analysis, which focused on 5 years of three leading journals in higher education: (1) "The Review of Higher Education" (RHE); (2) "The Journal of Higher Education" (JHE); and (3) "Research in Higher Education" (ResHE). Research articles were selected that had titles that indicated that the article concerned women or a subject especially associated with women. Data show that some scholars do use a feminist frame to guide their research in spite of the limited use of the word "feminism" in an article title or in the text of the article. Over two-thirds of the articles coded as gendered from their titles were identified as feminist in nature, but when the larger picture was examined, only 8.4% of all the articles appeared grounded in feminist theory. Gender was most salient in JHE, coded in 22.7% of the article abstracts, and least salient in RHE, coded in 15% of the abstracts. Thirty-five percent of the title-gendered articles were not identified as feminist in ResHE; gender only served as a research variable in those articles. Women and feminism were explicitly included in only 84 articles of those selected, and a comparison with a previous study by B. Townsend (1993) indicates that over time, the number of times women and feminism have been included in articles has remained relatively stable. (Contains 4 tables and 38 references.) (SLD)