20 term papers on sex-role stereotyping and 20 others were selected randomly from those completed by 108 undergraduate student teachers. Papers were analyzed for imbalance in the frequency of use of gender of nouns and pronouns. Sex imbalance was significantly smaller for papers dealing with sex-role stereotyping and for papers written by females.
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