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

  • Huimin Xu,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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  • Zhang Zhang,

    Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

    Affiliation School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  • Lingfei Wu ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Lingfei Wu, Cheng-Jun Wang

    Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

    * E-mail: wlf850927@gmail.com (LW); wangchj04@126.com (CW)

    Affiliation School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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  • Cheng-Jun Wang

    Contributed equally to this work with: Lingfei Wu, Cheng-Jun Wang

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

    * E-mail: wlf850927@gmail.com (LW); wangchj04@126.com (CW)

    Affiliation School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9507-2888

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

  • Huimin Xu, 
  • Zhang Zhang, 
  • Lingfei Wu, 
  • Cheng-Jun Wang
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  • Published: November 22, 2019
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225385
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