Gendered language (English)

Citation: Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier (2018/06/04) Gendered language (English).
Internet Archive Scholar (search for fulltext): Gendered language (English)
Wikidata (metadata): Q66381197
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Summary

Create data set characterizing the grammatical gender structure of 4,336 living languages drawn from language textbooks, historical records, academic work by linguists, firsthand accounts from native speakers and translators; generate a measure of the grammatical gender structure of each of the languages.

Estimate proportion population in each country with gendered native language; 38.6% worldwide.

Explore cross-country relationship between grammatical gender and women’s labor force participation, women’s educational attainment, and gender attitudes among both men and women. Complement cross-country analysis by estimating the individual-level association between grammatical gender and women’s participation in economic life using Afrobarometer data from African countries where both gender and non-gender languages are indigenous and widely spoken.

Suggests a robust negative relationship between grammatical gender and female labor force participation.

With data from the World Values Survey (WVS), show that grammatical gender predicts support for traditional gender roles.