Literary Genre And Era Outweigh Author Gender In Book Character Stereotypes
A large-scale computational analysis of 13,869 fiction novels published between 1485 and 2025 indicates that an author’s gender does not consistently predict whether female major characters are depicted in gender-stereotypical ways. The investigation, conducted by researchers Svenja Kratzke, Erdem Meral, and Hannes Rosenbusch and published in EPJ Data Science, evaluated character portrayals using public book…