Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Career gender bias "co-occurred" differently across 25 languages


Why it matters: You might be familiar with research into the role language can play in creating career stereotypes by gender, but this article offers a look at a new wrinkle in that field of study. By tallying how often certain words "co-occur" in large swaths of text across 25 different languages, researchers were able to determine the role the implicit bias of a language can play in shaping gender stereotypes about various careers.

Full Story: Carnegie Mellon University (8/3) 

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