Can gender-fair language reduce gender stereotyping and discrimination? [PDF]
Gender-fair language (GFL) aims at reducing gender stereotyping and discrimination. Two principle strategies have been introduced to make languages gender-fair and to treat women and men symmetrically: neutralization and feminization.
Sabine eSczesny +2 more
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Comprehensibility of gender-fair language in German-language video lectures [PDF]
In many languages, it is common to use masculine-only forms when all genders are meant or gender is irrelevant to the actual statement. This practice is criticized for making women and members of other genders, their achievements and interests, less ...
Marcus C. G. Friedrich, Bianca Krenz
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How to make a difference: the impact of gender-fair language on text comprehensibility amongst adults with and without an academic background [PDF]
IntroductionThe proliferation of gender-fair language as a medium of communication that represents all genders can be considered as an exciting development in today's rapidly changing world.
Laura Mathilde Pabst, Marlene Kollmayer
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Capturing socially motivated linguistic change. How the use of gender-fair language afffects support for social initiatives in Austria and Poland. [PDF]
Gender-fair language consists of the symmetric linguistic treatment of women and men instead of using masculine forms as generics. In this study, we examine how the use of gender-fair language affects readers’ support for social initiatives in Poland and
Magdalena Maria Formanowicz +3 more
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Do Anti-Egalitarians Report Increased Support for People with Language Difficulties when Exposed to Gender-Fair Language? [PDF]
In many countries, the use of gender-fair language is heavily debated. In France, some opponents to gender-fair language have argued that it hinders language comprehension for people who have difficulties with language (PDLs).
Pascaline Van Oost +2 more
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Exploring the use of gender-fair language by influencers [PDF]
Purpose – Explore the use of Gender-Fair Language (GFL) by influencers on Instagram. Design/methodology/approach – The clustering methodology. A digital Bag-of-Words (BoW) Method called GFL Clustering BoW Methodology to identify whether an inclusive ...
Carolina Nicolas +2 more
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In this paper we replicated two influential studies on gender-fair language that investigated how gender-fair language influences stereotype perception and recall of exemplars.
Schunack Silke, Binanzer Anja
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MINI: Mounting evidence demonstrates that gender inequity is perpetuated by language. As such, understanding the ways in which linguistic bias reinforces gender and other stereotypes is paramount to creating a culture of inclusivity. This perspective reviews the science detailing the ways language reinforces gender inequality and offers strategies to ...
Harris, Chelsea A. +2 more
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Warm-hearted businessmen, competitive housewives? Effects of gender-fair language on adolescents’ perceptions of occupations [PDF]
Recent studies from countries with grammatical gender languages (e.g., French) found both children and adults to more frequently think of female jobholders and to consider women's success in male dominated occupations more likely when the jobs were ...
Dries eVervecken +4 more
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Neutral is not fair enough: testing the efficiency of different language gender-fair strategies
In many languages with grammatical gender, the use of masculine forms as a generic reference has been associated with a bias favoring masculine-specific representations.
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