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The Effects Of Neutral And Sex-Specific Terminology On Sex Stereotyping, Natalie J. Malovich
The Effects Of Neutral And Sex-Specific Terminology On Sex Stereotyping, Natalie J. Malovich
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
A study was conducted to examine the effects of neutral and sex-specific terminology on sex stereotyping in regard to two primary questions: 1) whether or not the use of sex-neutral terminology alters subjects ' associations to particular words, and 2) whether, in the absence of gender identification, subjects make traditional sex-role assumptions about neutral terms. A third questions examined potential differences in male and female subjects' responses to neutral and sex-specific terminology.
Using a semantic differential technique, 40 male and 40 female volunteer subjects described a number of occupations and roles identified by sex-specific or sex-unspecified labels. Descriptions of those …