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Gender innovation and migration in Switzerland

Falk, Francesca

(Palgrave studies in migration history)

ISBN: 9783030016265

This open access book analyses migration and its relation to sociopolitical transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division of work, the establishment of a nursery infrastructure, access to higher education for women, and the struggle for female suffrage....

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The interaction of cartoonist's gender and formal features of cartoons

Samson, Andrea C. ; Huber, Oswald

In: Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, 2007, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 1-25

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Au-pairs are rarely male: Role names’ gender stereotype information across three languages.

Gabriel, Ute ; Gygax, Pascal ; Sarrasin, Oriane ; Garnham, Alan ; Oakhill, Jane

This study aims to evaluate people’s gender representation of role names across three different languages, English, French and German. In order to provide norms for role names to be further used in research on gender stereotyping, 362 participants filled in a questionnaire about their estimates of the proportion of men and women in different roles. Role names are any names that incorporate...

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Can language amendments change gender representation? The case of Norway.

Gabriel, Ute ; Gygax, Pascal

This study investigates the influence of stereotypical information and the grammatical masculine on the representation of gender in Norwegian by applying a sentence evaluation paradigm. In this study, as in Gygax et al. (2007), participants had to decide whether a second sentence containing explicit information about the gender of one of more of the characters (e.g. …one of the women…) was a...