A Study on Gendered Portrayals in Children's Informational Books with Scientific Content

Authors

  • Patricia R Ladd MLS University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Keywords:

Children's Literature, Non-fiction Books, Science Books, Gender

Abstract

This study analyzes gender bias in children's informational books about science and science careers to determine how these early resources are affecting the disparity between males and females in science and engineering fields. The study focused on the number of male and female scientists both in pictures and text, and how much space was devoted to discussion of scientists of each gender. Overall, the findings of the study show that only 18% of the pictured scientists were female as well as only 16% of the scientists discussed in the text. These numbers are below current industry data that puts the number of females working in science and engineering fields at 26%.

URL: http://ijkcdt.net/xml/00650/00650.pdf

Downloads

Published

2012-12-31

How to Cite

Ladd, P. R. (2012). A Study on Gendered Portrayals in Children’s Informational Books with Scientific Content. International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology, 2(2). Retrieved from https://ijkcdt.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/ijkcdt/article/view/27

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2012 International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  • The Copyright of reserch papers already or will be published in the jounal shall belong to RIKCDT, and by submitting a manuscript, the copyright is consider to be transferred to RIKCDT.
  • No dispute shall be raised on matters RIKCDT already managed on research papers published in previous journal.
  •  Once publication of the paper is confirmed, Copyright tansfer agreement shall be submitted.