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Direct linkHsiao, Yaling; Banerji, Nilanjana; Nation, Kate – Child Development, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Males, Student Experience, Writing Instruction, Reading Instruction
