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Do Single‐Sex STEM Programs Have Merit? If So, for Whom, on What Measures?

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Single‐sex STEM programs—defined here as voluntary, gender‐segregated extracurricular or supplemental activities (e.g., summer camps, workshops, robotics clubs, internships, or citizen science initiatives)—have experienced heightened popularity and scrutiny amid efforts to increase diversity in STEM fields.
Chen Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Instances of bias: the gendered semantics of generic masculines in German revealed by instance vectors

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
While research using behavioural methods has repeatedly shown that generic masculines in German come with a male bias, computational methods only entered this area of research very recently.
Schmitz Dominic
doaj   +1 more source

‘That’s unscientific!’: Science as the arbitrator of ‘truth’ in (German) feminist linguistic debates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The feminist critique of language has been contested from its very inception. Opponents have distanced themselves from feminist proposals by arguing, for example, that language and reality are separate entities; that linguistic disparity is insignificant
Luck, C
core  

Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Existing systems of university research ethics are often criticized by those in the qualitative research tradition. A common thread is that ethics cannot be fully anticipated before the research begins, as is expected by most institutional review boards.
Deana Simonetto, Antony Puddephatt
wiley   +1 more source

Is There a Woman in Los Candidatos? Gender Perception with Masculine “Generics” and Gender-Fair Language Strategies in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages
This study examines how several gender-encoding strategies in Spanish and social factors influence gender perception, reinforcing or mitigating a sexist male bias.
Laura Vela-Plo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does gender-fair language pay off? The social perception of professions from a cross-linguistic perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
In many languages, masculine forms (e.g., German Lehrer, ‘teachers, masc.’) have traditionally been used to refer to both women and men, although feminine forms are available, too.
Lisa Kristina Horvath   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Semantics in Cultural Perspective Overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The article was to aim to investigate the semantics overview based on the cultural perspective. The aim of semantics is to discover why meaning is more complex than simply the words formed in a sentence.  Culture is a word for the \u27way of life ...
Florence, K. (Karrie)   +2 more
core  

An Investigation into the relationship between the gender binary and occupational discrimination using the implicit relational assessment procedure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The social construction of gender-as-binary plays an important role within many contemporary theories of gender inequality. However, to date, the field of psychology has struggled with the operationalization and assessment of binarist ideologies.
Cartwright, Aoife   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

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