Purpose: The study has been undertaken with the purpose of finding out the growth and characteristics of Gender in Information Technology (IT) literature from Web of Knowledge.

Design / Methodology / Approach: Data were collected in 4th March 2010 from Web of Knowledge database. Over 1819 records are downloaded from the database of Web of knowledge during the period of 1991 to 2010 for this study. This article analyzed to study year wise distribution, author’s productivity and prominent contributors, continent and country wise distribution of records and journals, core journals in the subject area, indexing term frequency, etc.

Findings: Some of the important findings are that the relative growth rate is 0.30 and the doubling time 4. 24 years.North American continent is the highest publication output and USA is the highest research output. Maximum numbers of articles were published in the journals of ‘Computers in Human Behavior’. Gender, Technology and Use indexing terms are comes in first three ranks.

Originality/Value: This paper is relevant to those interested in bibliometrics and provides a comprehensive overview of the specific subject community.

Key words: Bibliometrics study, Gender, Technology, Prolific Author, word occurrence, data analysis.