The use of gender-fair language is an important measure to boost gender equality. However, there is wide-spread scepticism as to the usefulness of avoiding male bias in language, even in gendered languages. For instance, in German all nouns carry grammatical gender, and role names are considered generic, even when their gender is masculine. We used a sentence-picture matching task to test wheth...

DAVID WHITEHEAD University of Waikato 
 ABSTRACT: The construction of boys as a gendered culture is not usually associated with neuroscience. Exceptions are publications and presentations by consultants on boys’ education who adopt a “brain-based” perspective. From a neuroscience perspective, my analysis indicates the selective use of primary neuroscience research to construct and perpetuate ge...

The British debate over midwife registration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was highly gendered. Focusing on the period between the 1886 Medical Act and the 1902 Midwives Act, this article uses the content from the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, the two main general medical publications of the time, to explore the complex ways that gender works through other categories such ...

This paper addresses the translation divergencies of pronouns from English to French, specifically it and they, which have several gendered and non-gendered possible translations into French. Instead of using anaphora resolution, which is error-prone, we build a target language model that estimates the probabilities of a tuple of consecutive nouns followed by a pronoun. We bring evidence for th...

Although grammatical gender category assignment is arbitrary with respect to the semantics of gender, speakers of languages with grammatical gender conceive of non-gendered objects as having gendered characteristics consistent with the grammatical gender category to which they belong, a phenomenon we call conceptual spread. To extend these findings, we ask if orthographic gender – gender inform...

Swedish welfare organisations have a long history of promoting gender equality and inclusivity, involving implementation more gender-inclusive language (e.g., non-gendered terminology). This study analysed the use non/gendered expressions at Social Insurance Agency, as state policy is realised in conjunction with personalised service textual interaction screen-level bureaucracy. We drew on conv...

This study set out to check the addressing behavior within men’s and women’s talk in the written conversations in English language textbook series titled ‘New Interchange book’ by Richards, Hull and Proctor, (1998) from Cambridge University Press. In line with this aim, the present researchers initially prepared descriptive tables for both formal and informal contexts in three theme categories ...