A new look at gender inequality in Chinese: A study of Chinese speakers' perception of gender-based characters

Sex Roles

Volumn 61, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 427-433

  Cherng, Rong Ju ^a   Chang, Chu Lin ^a   Chen, Jenn Yeu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; Gender inequality; Linguistic relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449434542     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9639-z     Document Type: Article

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