Backlash Over Gender-Fair Language: The Impact of Feminine Job Titles on Men’s and Women’s Perception of Women
- Feminine forms of job titles raise great interest in many countries. However, it is still unknown how they shape stereotypical impressions on warmth and competence dimensions among female and male listeners. In an experiment with fictitious job titles men perceived women described with feminine job titles as significantly less warm and marginally less competent than women with masculine job titles, which led to lower willingness to employ them. No such effects were observed among women.
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| Author: | Magdalena Budziszewska, Karolina HansenORCiDGND, Michał BilewiczGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90397 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X14544371 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6526 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Language and Social Psychology |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/07/08 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | discrimination; gender-fair language; impression formation; social identity theory; stereotype content model |
| GND Keyword: | Berufsbezeichnung; Geschlechtergerechte Sprache; Soziale Identität; Soziale Wahrnehmung |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| First Page: | 681 |
| Last Page: | 691 |
| DDC classes: | 100 Philosophie und Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |