The Cinderella Complex: Word embeddings reveal gender stereotypes in movies and books

Xu, Huimin; Zhang, Zhang; Wu, Lingfei; Wang, Chengjun

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225385

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“…A different view is given by Xu, Zhang, Wu, & Wang (2019) which concludes that the character of women and men shows that men's lives are oriented towards adventure, while women's lives are oriented toward romantic relationships. Finally, we demonstrate the social support of gender stereotypes by showing that gender stereotype films are chosen more often and are ranked higher.…”

Section: Gender Inequality In the Form Of Stereotypesmentioning

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Gender Inequality in The Novel “Death of an Ex-Minister” by Nawal El Saadawi

2021

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Abstract. This study aims to describe the gender inequality contained in the novel Death of an Ex-Minister by Nawal el Saadawi using gender theory by Mansour Fakih (2005) which includes marginalization, subordination, stereotype, violence, and workload. The method used was descriptive qualitative. The results showed that there was gender inequality that was manifested in four forms: marginalization, subordination, stereotyping, and violence. Marginalization occurs in the form of dismissals by male superiors to female employees who were considered to often express opinions that differ from them. Subordination was indicated by the position of women who were lower than men. Whereas, stereotyping occurred with the negative attachment of a husband to his wife that because he was the one who gave food he had the right to do anything to his wife. The violence occurred in the form of physical violence by a husband against his wife and sexual violence experienced by a woman who was raped by ten men. Keywords: Gender, Gender Inequality, the novel Death of an Ex-Minister

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Section: Gender Inequality In the Form Of Stereotypesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Inequality in The Novel “Death of an Ex-Minister” by Nawal El Saadawi

2021

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“…Recently, Chiril et al (2020) developed a dataset for sexism detection in French tweets. While the study of sexism in TV shows has received little attention in natural language processing Lee et al (2019b), Gala et al (2020), Xu et al (2019), it has received significant attention in the field of gender studies (Sink and Mastro, 2017;Glascock, 2003). In gender studies, Sink and Mastro (2017) conducted a quantitative analysis to document portrayals of women and men on prime-time television and Glascock (2003) examines the perception of gender roles on network prime-time television programming.…”

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“Hold on honey, men at work”: A semi-supervised approach to detecting sexism in sitcoms

Singh¹,

Anand²,

Chowdhury³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Confer

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Television shows play an important role in propagating societal norms. Owing to the popularity of the situational comedy (sitcom) genre, it contributes significantly to the overall development of society. In an effort to analyze the content of television shows belonging to this genre, we present a dataset of dialogue turns from popular sitcoms annotated for the presence of sexist remarks. We train a text classification model to detect sexism using domain adaptive learning. We apply the model to our dataset to analyze the evolution of sexist content over the years. We propose a domain-specific semi-supervised architecture for the aforementioned detection of sexism. Through extensive experiments, we show that our model often yields better classification performance over generic deep learning based sentence classification that does not employ domain-specific training. We find that while sexism decreases over time on average, the proportion of sexist dialogue for the most sexist sitcom actually increases. . A quantitative analysis along with a detailed error analysis presents the case for our proposed methodology.

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“…Meanwhile, the latter represents men who show excellent knowledge and perceptions, a typical Confucian trait of ideal men in China. Owing to the profound impact of Confucianism over thousands of years, Chinese people tend to be comparatively more conservative on sex issues than people in Western countries, including the US (Xu et al, 2019). This accounts for the substitution of sexy by 感性ganxing (sensibility).…”

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Transcreation Strategies of Male-Related Traits from English Online Fragrance Labels into Chinese: From a Cultural Perspective

Zhu¹,

Ang²,

Rashid³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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In recent years, transcreation has been a buzzword in the translation industry and academia. It is defined as a combination of translation and new content creation, with translation used in its traditional sense. Although transcreation strategies have been explored, few studies have addressed whether translation or new content creation predominates in transcreation strategies and the underlying cultural reasons. This study examines the transcreation strategies involved in the Chinese translations of male stereotypes in English online fragrance labels. More specifically, as transcreation strategies can be divided into minimal and marked interventional strategies, this paper examined the cultural reasons underlying marked interventional strategies drawing on the Hofstede model. It adopts a descriptive and interpretive qualitative research method. A non-probability purposive sampling method is used to collect data. Findings illustrate that marked interventional strategies, including addition, substitution and omission, predominate transcreation strategies. Whereas minimal change including direct translation is less. The unveiled cultural reasons suggest the differences of male stereotypes in advertising between China and the US, thus contributing to the research on East-West comparison of male stereotypes. Meanwhile, it will provide implications for translators to deal with male stereotypes in advertising.

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The Cinderella Complex: Word embeddings reveal gender stereotypes in movies and books

Cited by 28 publications

References 34 publications

Gender Inequality in The Novel “Death of an Ex-Minister” by Nawal El Saadawi

Gender Inequality in The Novel “Death of an Ex-Minister” by Nawal El Saadawi

“Hold on honey, men at work”: A semi-supervised approach to detecting sexism in sitcoms

Transcreation Strategies of Male-Related Traits from English Online Fragrance Labels into Chinese: From a Cultural Perspective

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