Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations and care work occupations are highly segregated by gender. School textbooks play an essential socializing role in determining which occupations are perceived as typically male or female. Existing research on the gender representation of STEM and care work occupations in textbooks is limited in scope. Therefore, we used quantitative text analyses in a large sample of 202 current German textbooks to examine the gender representation of STEM and care work occupations. We used collocation analysis to explore the nature of the occupational representations, focusing on agency and communion. Men were portrayed significantly more frequently than women in STEM and care work occupations. Adjectives of agency and communion occurred rarely in the collocations. Further research is required to test our findings in other cultures and to take a more differentiated look into the use of agency and communion in textbooks.

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德国教科书中 STEM 和护理工作职业领域中女性和男性的性别代表性

科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 职业和护理工作职业按性别高度隔离。学校教科书在确定哪些职业被视为典型的男性或女性方面发挥着重要的社交作用。现有关于教科书中 STEM 和护理工作职业性别代表性的研究范围有限。因此，我们对 202 本现行德国教科书的大样本进行了定量文本分析，以考察 STEM 和护理工作职业的性别代表性。我们使用搭配分析来探索职业表征的本质，重点关注代理和交流。在 STEM 和护理工作领域，男性的出现频率明显高于女性。代理和交流的形容词在搭配中很少出现。需要进一步的研究来测试我们在其他文化中的发现，并对教科书中代理和交流的使用进行更差异化的审视。