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Abstract
Using latent semantic analysis, we examined gender stereotypes in American English by submitting over 100 masculine, neutral, and feminine role-words and trait-words to pair-wise semantic similarity comparisons with masculine (man, he, him) and feminine (woman, she, her) referents separately. We expected to find: (a) Stereotyping-roles and traits would be more semantically similar to the ostensible 'matching' than 'mismatching' gender category referent; (b) Categorical narrowness-both categories would be less semantically similar to counterstereotypical than to neutral or stereotypical characteristics; but this would be especially so for the male category, indicating its relatively greater narrowness. Results supported these hypotheses, but only among role-words. American English reflects and reinforces gender stereotypes regarding gender roles at a level beyond that recognized previously.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 269-278 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Sex Roles |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- gender stereotypes
- Stereotype content
- Stereotype breadth
- Latent semantic analysis
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Gender role boundary theory: the structure of the male & female representations
Lenton, A.
1/08/04 → 31/03/07
Project: Research
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Gender role boundary theory: on the structure of male vs female representations
Lenton, A.
1/08/04 → 31/12/04
Project: Research