The Order of Gendered Words in a Phrase: When and Why It Constitutes Gender-Biased Language

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• Dr Selin Kesebir, London Business School
• Tuesday 27 October 2015, 13:00-14:00
• Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

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I will present my work on the order of gendered words in conjoined phrases (e.g., “men and women”) as a form of gender-bias in language. I will argue that communicators put the more relevant party in the initial position, and audiences assign stronger relevance to the party in that position. Studies 1-3 document the prevalence of male-first conjoined phrases in the public (but not family) domain and link the pattern to historical changes in women’s public presence over the 20th century. Studies 4 and 5 show that people spontaneously produce stereotype-consistent word order patterns when relevance differences are not known or presumed. Studies 6 and 7 find that word order affects the perceived relevance of the two genders in a given context. Overall, this work provides a theoretical account and empirical evidence for word order in conjoined phrases as a form of gender-biased language.

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