Women and Minorities in Introductory Economics Textbooks: 1974 to 1984

A Hidden Curriculum? Examining the Gender Content in Introductory-Level Political Science Textbooks

“…This thematic focus, coupled with the piecemeal and often stereotypical portrayal of African-Americans (Clawson 2004;Clawson and Kegler 2000), serves to endorse implicitly and thus reproduce race-based social and political stratification (Allen and Wallace 2010). Similar observations have been made about ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation in political science as well as other social science fields (Feiner and Morgan 1990;Foster 1999;Novkov and Gossett 2007;Olivo 2012).…”

Sex Bias in Secondary School Social Studies Textbooks:A Case study in India

“…Women are treated as being supplementary to American history, rather than being integral to it. [2] Conducted a study to examine the coverage of race and gender in introductory economics textbooks. The results of their study were that scant attention is paid to questions of race and gender in introductory economics textbooks.…”

Gender Representation in Foreign Language Textbooks: A Case Study of Textbooks of Russian

“…I Allen, 1983;Bordelon, 1985; Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1979;Dougherty & Engel, 1987;Patten, 1988;Robinson, 1991;Rosenfelt, 1982;Smith, Greenlaw, & Scott, 1987;Todd, 1988. . 5 Bazler & Simonis, 1990;Brush, 1991;Heikkinen, 1978;Potter & Rosser, 1992;Powell & Garcia, 1985;Faylor, 1979;wdlford, l980a, 1980bWhatley, 1989. 6 Blankenship, 1984;Cairns & Inglis, 1989;Feiner & Morgan, 1990;Ferree & Hall, 1990;Fox, 1989;Grambs, 1987;Kirby & Julian, 1981;Lauter, 1985;Lawson, 1990;Morgen & Moran, 1990;Ogren, 1985;Peterson & Kroner, 1992;Shaver, Davis, & Helburn, 1979;Srole, 1990;Sullivan & Bueler, 1988;Tetreault, 1986. It may be argued, in fact, that a textbook in which females less frequently play the roles of sentence subjects and more often the roles of objects of the action of a sentence is sexist, but such an argument would require a more detailed analysis of every instance of gender representation than allowed for by the scope of the present study.…”

“…Criteria-driven studies, such as those by Bazler and Simonis (1990), Chafetz (1974), Feiner and Morgan (1990), Ferree and Hall (1990), Hellinger (1980), Ogren (1985), Peterson and Kroner (1992), Porreca (1984), Potter and Rosser (1992), Walford (1980aWalford ( , 1980bWalford ( , 1981Walford ( , 1983, and Willeke and Sanders (1978), are characterized by the fact that their authors established criteria for the examination of the data by means of a classification system before the textbooks themselves were examined. Some of these studies have built on an important work by Schmitz (1975), according to whom textbooks can be examined (a) to determine the degree to which women are included or excluded from the instructional material, and (b) to determine the degree to which women's roles are subordinated, distorted, or degraded in the material.…”