Boys Write about Boys: Androcentrism in Children's Reading Experience and Its Emergence in Children's Own Writing

Autor/inn/en	Hsiao, Yaling; Banerji, Nilanjana; Nation, Kate
Titel	Boys Write about Boys: Androcentrism in Children's Reading Experience and Its Emergence in Children's Own Writing
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 6, S.2194-2204 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hsiao, Yaling)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13623
Schlagwörter	Males; Student Experience; Writing Instruction; Reading Instruction; Gender Bias; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Students; Childrens Literature; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Studienerfahrung; Schreibunterricht; Leseunterricht; Geschlechterstereotyp; Ausland; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Großbritannien
Abstract	Gender bias exists in our language environment. We investigated personal name usage in two large corpora of language written for and by U.K. children aged 5-13. Study 1 found an overrepresentation of male names in children's books, largely attributable to male authors. In stories written by over 100,000 children, Study 2 found an overall male bias that interacted with age. Younger children wrote more about their own gender. With age, girls became more balanced yet boys continued to show a strong male bias. Our findings demonstrate a male-centered bias in both children's books and their own writing. We consider the power of written language to both shape and be shaped by cultural stereotypes via systematic biases in gender associations. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01