Do female/male distinctions in language matter? Evidence from gender political quotas

By Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Amir Shoham, Victor Gay. 2013

This article studies the determinants of gender political quota and enforcement sanctions, two key policy instruments for increasing female participation in politics. We find a novel empirical fact: language (the pervasiveness of gender distinctions in grammar) is the most significant related variable to quota adoption, more than traditional explanations such as economic development, political system and religion.

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• Assessing gender bias in machine translation: a case study with Google Translate (2018, positive): “corroborating this, as shown in [6], as well some relating this with sexism [37] and gender inequalities [34].”