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Université de Fribourg

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...

Université de Fribourg

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...