The Instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries

By S. Lieberson, Susan T. Dumais, Shyon Baumann. American Journal of Sociology, 2000

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Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change1 (2006, background): “For example, almost 71% of the whites interviewed said they would move into an area that was 7% black, and half said they would move into a neighborhood that was 21% black.”
Gender Gap in Natural Language Processing Research: Disparities in Authorship and Citations (2020, background): “There is a strong cultural norm in various parts of the world to assign a first name to newborns as per their category of sex (Pilcher, 2017; Barry III and Harper, 2014; Lieberson et al., 2000; Alford, 1987).”
Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping Toward Female? The Sex Composition of U.S. Fields of Doctoral Degree Receipt, 1971–2002 (2007, unknown): “Lieberson et al. (2000) examine trends over the last century in parents naming their children androgynous names, like Kim or Leslie, that are given to either girls or boys.”
Men Set Their Own Cites High: Gender and Self-citation across Fields and over Time (2016, background): “Of these, there are 678,768 self-citations by men, 121,923 self-citations by women, and 216,671 selfcitations by authors of unknown gender.”
The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship (2012, result): “this may slightly downwardly bias our estimates of women [17].”