Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty
Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty
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DOI：
10.1177/0957926503014002277
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发表时间：
2003-03-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Psenka, C
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作者：
Trix, F;Psenka, C
本研究运用语料库和语篇分析的方法，从认知心理学的性别图式理论视角，对20世纪90年代中期美国一所大型医学院的300多份医学教师推荐信进行了研究。研究发现，写给女性申请者的信在长度上与写给男性申请者的信有系统的不同，在缺乏基本特征的百分比上，在有怀疑者的百分比(一种扩展的负面语言，通常与明显的表扬有关)方面，以及在提到地位术语的频率方面。此外，最常见的语义分组所有格短语指的是女性和男性申请者(她的教学、他的研究)，这强化了倾向于将女性描绘成教师和学生、将男性描绘成研究人员和专业人员的性别图式。
This study examines over 300 letters of recommendation for medical faculty at a large American medical school in the mid-1990s, using methods from corpus and discourse analysis, with the theoretical perspective of gender schema from cognitive psychology. Letters written for female applicants were found to differ systematically from those written for male applicants in the extremes of length, in the percentages lacking in-basic features, in the percentages with doubt raisers (an extended category of negative language, often associated with apparent commendation), and in frequency of mention of status terms. Further, the most common semantically grouped possessive phrases referring to female and male applicants ('her teaching,' 'his research') reinforce gender schema that tend to portray women as teachers and students, and men as researchers and professionals.