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Jennifer Lindsay – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
The underrepresentation of women and girls in children's picture books and the use of gender stereotypes persists, as seen in a sample of 335 books published between 2010 and 2020. Previous research showed a significant lack of female representation in children's picture books and stereotyped presentation. A pilot study was conducted to establish…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Content Analysis
Willinsky, John – 1988
To examine the role that items on the list of "What Literate Americans Know" (developed by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.) plays in the nation's literacy, a study conducted an electronic search of "The New York Times" to establish the frequency of occurrence for a sample from the list. A random sample of 424 terms (9% of the total list) was…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Mass Media Role, Media Research, Newspapers