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.
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