Subtle linguistic cues affecting gender in (equality)

M Formanowicz, K Hansen - Journal of Language and Social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Gender stereotypes and related gender discrimination are encoded in and transmitted
through language, contributing to gender inequality. In this article, we review research …

A language index of grammatical gender dimensions to study the impact of grammatical gender on the way we perceive women and men

PM Gygax, D Elmiger, S Zufferey, A Garnham… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have
shown several biases associated with how gender is linguistically realized in language …

Gender representations elicited by the gender star form

A Körner, B Abraham, R Rummer… - Journal of Language …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In many languages, masculine language forms are not only used to designate the male
gender but also to operate in a generic fashion. This dual function has been found to lead to …

Gendered representations of person referents activated by the nonbinary gender star in German: A word-picture matching task

L Zacharski, EC Ferstl - Discourse Processes, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The public debate on the use of the German nonbinary gender asterisk (Lehrer* in 'teacher')
is emotionally charged. While it has been adopted by political and educational institutions …

The influence of the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) on comprehensibility and interest

MCG Friedrich, V Drößler, N Oberlehberg… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recently, the gender asterisk (“Gendersternchen”) has become more widespread in
grammatical gender languages in order to represent all genders. Such gender-fair language …

Does the use of gender-fair language influence the comprehensibility of texts?

MCG Friedrich, E Heise - Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2019 - econtent.hogrefe.com
In many languages masculine nouns and pronouns can be interpreted to refer to both male
and female referents. However, even when the authors expressly point out that masculine …

There are more women in joggeur· euses than in joggeurs: On the effects of gender-fair forms on perceived gender ratios in French role nouns

J Tibblin, J van de Weijer, J Granfeldt… - Journal of French …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The present paper reports findings from a controlled large-scale (N= 1018) experimental
study investigating how four different gender-fair forms influenced native French speakers' …

The masculine bias in fully gendered languages and ways to avoid it: A study on gender neutral forms in Québec and Swiss French

J Kim, S Angst, P Gygax, U Gabriel… - Journal of French …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The extent to which gender neutral and gendered nouns impact differently upon native
French speakers' gender representations was examined through a yes-no forced choice …

Unconscious Bias in Job Titles: Implicit associations between four different linguistic forms with Women and Men

R Fatfouta, S Sczesny - Sex Roles, 2023 - Springer
The use of masculine forms in job titles (eg, fireman, salesman) can deter women from
applying or being selected for certain positions. The current research investigated the …

Gender and linguistic sexism.

U Gabriel, P Gygax - 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
In this chapter, we approach the issue of" grammaticalization of gender" from an intergroup
relations perspective. Using social identity theory, and more specifically self-categorization …