Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08697v2
• Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:56:51 GMT
• Title: Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments
• Authors: Ida Marie Schytt Lassen, Yuri Bizzoni, Telma Peura, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo
• Abstract summary: This paper uses literary reviews as a proxy for aesthetic judgement in order to identify systematic components that can be attributed to bias. We find that judgement of literary quality in newspapers displays a gender bias in preference of male writers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Aesthetic preferences are considered highly subjective resulting in inherently noisy judgements of aesthetic objects, yet certain aspects of aesthetic judgement display convergent trends over time. This paper present a study that uses literary reviews as a proxy for aesthetic judgement in order to identify systematic components that can be attributed to bias. Specifically we find that judgement of literary quality in newspapers displays a gender bias in preference of male writers. Male reviewers have a same gender preference while female reviewer show an opposite gender preference. While alternative accounts exist of this apparent gender disparity, we argue that it reflects a cultural gender antagonism.

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