Representation of the sexes in language

By D. Stahlberg, Friederike Braun, Lisa Irmen, Sabine Sczesny. 2007

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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The Gendering of Language: A Comparison of Gender Equality in Countries with Gendered, Natural Gender, and Genderless Languages (2012, methodology): “And in genderless languages sex can be disregarded symmetrically (Stahlberg et al. 2007; p. 167).”
Bias in word embeddings (2020, background): “Consequently, the bases of social discrimination are diffused through statements of prejudice and stereotypes in text, directly and indirectly [88].”
Reducing women’s lack of fit with leadership positions? Effects of the wording of job advertisements (2015, background): “In English, on the other hand, which is a natural-gender language, most human nouns are gender-neutral and gender marking is largely restricted to pronouns (he/she) (see Stahlberg et al., 2007, for an overview).”
Reducing a Male Bias in Language? Establishing the Efficiency of Three Different Gender-Fair Language Strategies (2018, background): “…comprehension where supposedly gender-neutral words automatically and unconsciously are associated with men and/or masculinity (Hellinger 2002; Stahlberg et al. 2007), which is one of several examples of how men constitute the norm for humanity (Bailey and LaFrance 2017; Bem 1993; Hegarty and…”
Mechanisms of linguistic bias: How words reflect and maintain stereotypic expectancies (2014, background): “In these cases the lexicon contains terms for stereotypically unexpected gender roles, but not for the expected (Stahlberg et al, 2007).”
Grammatical gender associations outweigh topical gender bias in crosslinguistic word embeddings (2020, background): “As these do not correspond to masculine and feminine, Dutch is considered a natural gender language for our purposes (c.f. Stahlberg et al., 2007).”
Stereotyping and Bias in the Flickr30K Dataset (2016, background): “2 Adjectives One well-studied example (Stahlberg et al., 2007; Romaine, 2001) is sexist language, where the sex of a person tends to be mentioned more frequently if their role or occupation is inconsistent with ‘traditional’ gender roles (e.g. female surgeon, male nurse ).”
Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender (2019, background): “However, they only focus on English embeddings in which the gender is mostly only expressed by pronouns (Stahlberg et al., 2007).”