Changing (S)expectations: How gender fair job descriptions impact children's perceptions and interest regarding traditionally male occupations ☆

By Dries Vervecken, B. Hannover, Ilka Wolter. 2013

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Study choice and career development in STEM fields: an overview and integration of the research (2015, background): “…et al. (2011) Empirical Cross-sectional 125 US 9–26 Cvencek et al. (2011) Empirical Cross-sectional 247 US 6–10 Novakovic and Fouad (2012) Empirical Cross-sectional 217 US 14–19 Vervecken et al. (2013) Empirical Experimental 352 Germany and Belgium 6–12 and 6–16 Educational studies…”
Good Secretaries, Bad Truck Drivers? Occupational Gender Stereotypes in Sentiment Analysis (2019, background): “Children and adolescents are particularly sensitive to gendered language used to describe occupations and form rigid occupational gender stereotypes based on this (Vervecken et al., 2013).”
Reducing women’s lack of fit with leadership positions? Effects of the wording of job advertisements (2015, result): “…confirms earlier results which showed that female professionals were suggested for a political leadership position more frequently (Braun et al., 2005) or were ascribed more success (Vervecken et al., 2013) when word pairs were used to designate the positions in comparison with masculine forms.”