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 that interacted with age. Younger children wrote more about their own gender. With age, girls became more balanced yet boys continued to show a strong male bias. Our findings demonstrate a male-centered bias in both children’s books and their own writing. We consider the power of written language to both shape and be shaped by cultural stereotypes via systematic biases in gender associations.

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男孩写关于男孩：儿童阅读体验中的男性中心主义及其在儿童自身写作中的出现

我们的语言环境中存在性别偏见。我们调查了为 5-13 岁的英国儿童编写的两个大型语言语料库中的个人姓名使用情况。研究 1 发现儿童书籍中男性名字的比例过高，这主要归因于男性作者。在超过 100,000 名儿童撰写的故事中，研究 2 发现了与年龄相互作用的整体男性偏见。年幼的孩子写了更多关于他们自己性别的文章。随着年龄的增长，女孩变得更加平衡，但男孩继续表现出强烈的男性偏见。我们的研究结果表明，儿童读物和他们自己的写作都存在以男性为中心的偏见。我们认为书面语言通过性别关联中的系统性偏见来塑造和被文化刻板印象塑造的力量。