The Gendering of Language: A Comparison of Gender Equality in Countries with Gendered, Natural Gender, and Genderless Languages

Sex Roles

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 268-281

  Prewitt Freilino, Jennifer L ^a   Caswell, T Andrew ^b   Laakso, Emmi K ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender equality; Gendering Language; Grammatical gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856540473     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-0083-5     Document Type: Article

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