Boys Write About Boys: Androcentrism in Children's Reading Experience and Its Emergence in Children's Own Writing
Boys Write About Boys: Androcentrism in Children's Reading Experience and Its Emergence in Children's Own Writing
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DOI：
10.1111/cdev.13623
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发表时间：
2021-07-06
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Nation, Kate
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作者：
Hsiao, Yaling;Banerji, Nilanjana;Nation, Kate
性别偏见存在于我们的语言环境中。我们调查了英国5-13岁儿童的两个大型语料库中的人名使用情况。研究1发现，儿童书籍中男性名字的比例过高，这在很大程度上归因于男性作者。在10万多名儿童写的故事中，研究2发现，男性的偏见总体上与年龄有关。年龄较小的孩子更多地写自己的性别。随着年龄的增长，女孩变得更加平衡，而男孩继续表现出强烈的男性偏见。我们的研究结果表明，在儿童书籍和他们自己的写作中都存在以男性为中心的偏见。我们认为书面语言的力量既可以通过性别关联中的系统性偏见塑造文化刻板印象，也可以被其塑造。
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.