Sex Bias in the Helping Behavior Presented in Children's Picture Books

Barnett, Mark A.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1986.9914508

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“…Barnett (1986) stated "The higher representation of males has been found not only in broad samplings of children's literature but in award-winning books as well" (p. 343). In their literature review, Tognoli et al (1994) traced 12 studies conducted from 1972 to 1993 that analyzed sexism in a wide variety of children's literature samples including Caldecott winners and runners-up, Newbery winners, non-award-winning books, and even French children's picture books.…”

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“…Barnett (1986) studied a total of 1,537 picture books by dividing the children's picture book area at a local public library into 18 sections and having each of 18 readers look at all the books in her or his section. McDonald (1989) analyzed 22 Caldecott winners and 19 non-award-winning books randomly selected from the shelves at a local public library and a university library.…”

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Gender Stereotyping and Under-representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A Twenty-first Century Update

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Gender stereotyping and under-representation of girls and women have been documented in children's picture books in the past, in the hope that improvements would follow. Most researchers have analyzed awardwinning books. We explored sexism in top selling books from 2001 and a 7-year sample of Caldecott award-winning books, for a total of 200 books. There were nearly twice as many male as female title and main characters. Male characters appeared 53% more times in illustrations. Female main characters nurtured more than male main characters did, and they were seen in more indoor than outdoor scenes. Occupations were gender stereotyped, and more women than men appeared to have no paid occupation. Few differences were found between Caldecott award books and other books. A comparison of our book sample to 1980s and 1990s books did not reveal reduced sexism. The persistence of sexism in picture books and implications for children and parents are discussed.

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Gender Stereotyping and Under-representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A Twenty-first Century Update

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“…A host of subsequent research has examined the gender representations in award‐winning and best‐selling children's literature in follow‐up to the study of Weitzman et al These more recent studies generally demonstrate that male characters are still featured disproportionately in book titles, central roles, and pictures throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s (Allen, Allen, and Sigler ; Barnett ; Collins, Ingoldsby, and Dellmann ; Hamilton et al ; Kolbe and La Voie ; Kortenhaus and Demerest ; McCabe et al ; McDonald ; Tognoli, Pullen, and Lieber ; Turner‐Bowker ; Williams et al ). While some improvement in the gender stereotyping for women has been noted, especially in the 1980s, more recent studies broadly argue that award‐winning children's books continue to reflect traditional gender presentations.…”

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Perpetuating Stereotypes: A Study of Gender, Family, and Religious Life in Jewish Children's Books

Sigalow

Fox

2014

Scientific Study of Religion

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This paper examines award-winning Jewish children's literature as a medium to explore how religiosity gets constructed differently for men and women. We analyze three decades of winners of the Sydney Taylor Jewish Book Award, a prestigious annual award given by the Association of Jewish Libraries to an outstanding Jewish children's book. We demonstrate how these award-winning books produce and perpetuate gendered religious stereotypes that associate men with agency and women with communion. We also show how these books construct images of a "domestic Judaism" for women and a "public Judaism" for men and how women have been symbolically annihilated from the titles and central character roles in these books. Drawing on Cecilia Ridgeway's (2011) gender-framing perspective, we argue that the gender stereotypes evident in these books matter to society because they produce and enforce gender inequalities in religiousness. Keywords: gender, family, Judaism. INTRODUCTIONIn the June 2009 issue of JSSR, scholars engaged in a lively debate about the benefits and perils of recent research on gender, religion, and risk-aversion theory. Gender and religion scholar, Marie Cornwall (2009), then editor of the journal, authored a short response raising questions about risk preference approaches, taking them to task for reifying sex differences and proceeding without the insights of recent gender scholarship. Cornwall concluded her note by inviting scholars to pursue a more productive line of inquiry about gender and religion that focuses on the "gendering processes that constitute religious expression, experience, and religiosity differently for women and men " (2009:254). Answering her invitation, we explore the workings of one particular gendering process, the transmission of religious knowledge and ideas through Jewish children's books, as a way to refocus light on the social and cultural mechanisms that produce religious differences among men and women.Despite compelling evidence that the religious gender gap is not universal and depends largely upon the measures of religiosity used to demonstrate it as so (Cornwall 1989;Steggerda 1993;Sullins 2006), the majority of recent research on religion and gender has proceeded from the assumption that higher female religiousness is a commonly accepted fact (Collett and Lizardo 2009; Miller and Hoffman 1995;Stark 2002;Walter and Davie 1998 why women are (seemingly) more religious than men (see Sullins 2006 for overview). We worrylike Cornwall (2009)-that this current line of thinking both reifies cultural beliefs about men and women and reinforces researchers' own taken-for-granted assumptions about gender differences. In this article, we thus direct conversation about religion and gender in a new direction. Rather than asking why women are more religious than men (and assuming, a priori, that they are), we ask how religiosity, as a gendered construct, gets produced differently for men and women and why these differences matter to society. In our analysis of the content, pictures, and...

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“…For example, Barnett (1986) found that male and female characters in children's storybooks were depicted as showing different styles of helping with problems, with female characters being more likely to help in an expressive style (e.g. comforting, consoling, providing emotional support) whereas male characters were more likely to provide instrumental help (e.g.…”

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Children's Moral Orientation: does the gender of dilemma character make a difference?

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Ruben

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Journal of Moral Education

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Sex Bias in the Helping Behavior Presented in Children's Picture Books

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Gender Stereotyping and Under-representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A Twenty-first Century Update

Gender Stereotyping and Under-representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A Twenty-first Century Update

Perpetuating Stereotypes: A Study of Gender, Family, and Religious Life in Jewish Children's Books

Children's Moral Orientation: does the gender of dilemma character make a difference?

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