Children's books are dominated by male characters while female protagonists are being underrepresented, a new study reveals. Researchers have analysed more than 3,000 fiction and non-fiction books ...

Characters in books are about four times more likely to be male than female, a new study of gender bias in literature has revealed. Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering used ...

Surprisingly, researchers found that even when the characters are animals, they tend to be male. The most comprehensive study of 20th century children's books ever undertaken in the United States ...

If you want to create a balanced summer reading list, here are nine classic books with toxic male characters — and what to read instead if you're looking for a little less misogyny and volatility.

This list is updated to include more of the best male characters in Harry Potter and ... that it provides enough content for ...

There are plenty of stand up guys in literature (well, there are a few), but there are also plenty of male characters, both heroes and villains, who embody the very worst of toxic masculinity.

(For books in which characters were not assigned a gender, researchers noted, parents reading to their children tended to assign one: male.) No more than 33 percent of children’s books in any ...

Literary critic and writer Sarah Seltzer is a bit kinder, but agrees that a double standard endures. "I doubt whether a female novelist who so obviously bungled/sidelined a major male character as ...

First, do people treat male and female literary characters differently? That is, are readers actually more inclined to evaluate female, as opposed to male, protagonists on the basis of their ...

Do you think that books have more male than female characters in them? That's what a new study of 3,000 English language books has found. Researchers used artificial intelligence and discovered ...