Gender Bias Induced by Stereotypes

People’s Perception of Gender of a Gender-unknown Subject in a Fictional Scenario

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220504.273How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender Stereotype; Unconscious Bias; Personal Pronoun

Abstract

This research mainly studies how do gender stereotypes play out in people’s lives and how people will subconscious through events type to determine the gender of one person. The study was conducted through a survey (N =89) that asked the participants to comment on a paragraph containing gender-specific events and inferring the perception of the subject’s gender by finding out the personal pronouns they used in the answers. A statistical difference is find in the results, people tend to habitually use “he” when it is not gender-specific. For events with a gender stereotype, people are more likely to identify the protagonist as that gender. If there is future research, the research will take a closer look at why people use personal pronouns like “he” frequently rather than “it” or some other subjects.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziyi Fan
AU  - Xinyuan Liu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Gender Bias Induced by Stereotypes
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1507
EP  - 1511
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.273
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.273
ID  - Fan2022
ER  -