Gender Stereotyping in Children's Reports About Educational and Informational Television Programs

摘要: Children in the 2nd through 6th grade wrote reports about their favorite educational and informational television programs, were examined for presence of gender stereotypes. Children's written contained more male than female characters, pronouns, masculine feminine behaviors. Effects most pronounced boys. Over time, preadolescent girls showed a greater preference programs that featured lead used behaviors, expressed range feelings writings programs. Girls boys, however, likely to report behaviors characters. Moreover, gender-stereotyping effects eliminated boys who selected program featuring an adventurous character. Although memories are often stereotyped, few nontraditional can drench th...