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Sky Nash 
‘Aprons, Cooking, Sports and Villains.’

“Collecting imagery found and scanned from children’s literature, both classic and contemporary, this project aims to directly compare the ratio and style of imagery of males to females in four distinct categories: Aprons, Cooking, Sports and Villains.
 
One half of each book is dedicated to males found in one of the scenarios and the other half for females in the same scenario.  The physical size of each section, ratio of males to females, and depiction of each gender in these activities makes for a fascinating observation.
This project shows how there is a discrepancy of real life representations of males and females found in children’s literature. It shows that old-fashioned notions still exist even though society has changed. In Apron we find that there are a lot more females wearing aprons as opposed to men. Cooking continues this trend, depicting more women cooking compared to men. With Sports we find that the variety of sports undertaken by men is far wider than that of woman. Furthermore, the book Villains demonstrates the oddest find, as it is the only book to have a relatively even number of males to females within that role.”