Gender Bias in Writing

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This paper addresses the issue of gender bias in literature and shows the importance of educators in maintaining a gender balance in literature chosen to be part of a curriculum. The paper gives examples of specific characteristics of male and female writers and the differences between them. It shows how writing skills taught in school influences the way students develop socially and provides recommendations for educators in developing a quality curriculum.

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"The importance of a quality writing curriculum should be emphasized in all schools at all levels. It is not generally recognized as an obvious truth, but gender inequalities exist in literature across the board, in addition to writing courses and other training mechanisms. These inequalities are not particularly obvious and are not likely to be intentional, but they do occur in all areas of literature and prose. Specifically, current writing curriculums do not stress the significance of expressive writing in classrooms that are composed of a combination of students from both genders. Personal experience has taught me that for the relatively few gifted individuals in this world that possess true writing talent, gender is not even considered in the equation. Writing talent is defined by the quality of the work in any form, not the person who wrote it. Whether or not a stigma regarding males and their expressive writing abilities indeed exist remains to be seen. Males are certainly capable of expressing themselves through their writing in the same manner as females, although their developmental activities may be different. Furthermore, the tendency to evaluate writing skills and prose is often based entirely upon gender stereotypes that tend to prefer female writers to males in the expressive writing category. In order to cultivate new writers of both genders, it is critical that all types of writing styles are taught in schools so that writers may discover their hidden talents and demons regarding the writing process."

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