The Gendering of Language: A Comparison of Gender Equality in Countries with Gendered, Natural Gender, and Genderless Languages

By Jennifer L. Prewitt-Freilino, T. Caswell, Emmi K. Laakso. 2012

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Boys Don’t Play with Dolls: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Talk during Picture Book Reading (2014, background): “For example, gender-neutral nouns and pronouns can be interpreted with an implicit male bias (Stahlberg, Braun, Irmen, & Sczesny, 2007), or the use of gender-symmetrical terms, like he/she, might even enhance the salience of gender as a social category (Prewitt-Freilino et al., 2012).”
Bucking the Linguistic Binary: Gender Neutral Language in English, Swedish, French, and German (2016, result): “While other studies, such as Prewitt-Freilino et al. (2012), can confirm the effects of grammatical gender systems on gender equality and perception, this research is unique in that it makes a direct connection between the differences in the ability to use gender neutral language and the lived…”
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. (2022, unknown): “In many other languages, however, all nouns (including inanimate ones) are categorized by grammatical gender [58], whereas languages like Turkish, Finnish, and Indonesian are categorized as ‘ genderless ’ ; even their pronouns are gender neutral [59].”