Table 6 Percentage of sexist songs identified for each artist type and gender. We report how these percentages change for different values of \(N_{B}\) (i.e. the minimum number of 4 line batches classified as sexist to consider the whole song to contain sexist content). The classification threshold =0.725 and values in bold are used in the main text. Percentages correspond to the fraction of sexist lyrics within the artist type and gender
From: Large scale analysis of gender bias and sexism in song lyrics
Artist type | Gender | \(N_{B}\) | Songs | Billboard | Billboard (top 10) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Solo artist | Male | 1 | 30.0% | 43.4% | 48.4% |
2 | 23.1% | 36.7% | 42.1% | ||
3 | 14.9% | 25.5% | 32.8% | ||
Female | 1 | 19.6% | 29.8% | 30.9% | |
2 | 14.7% | 23.8% | 25.5% | ||
3 | 8.6% | 14.9% | 16.9% | ||
Group | Male only | 1 | 18.0% | 32.0% | 33.2% |
2 | 12.9% | 24.6% | 26.2% | ||
3 | 7.4% | 14.2% | 16.7% | ||
Female only | 1 | 20.0% | 34.4% | 42.9% | |
2 | 15.0% | 26.4% | 37.5% | ||
3 | 8.4% | 14.2% | 17.9% | ||
Mixed | 1 | 16.2% | 26.4% | 30.1% | |
2 | 11.2% | 20.8% | 25.6% | ||
3 | 6.3% | 13.8% | 17.9% |