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are consistent with the theoretical possibility that gendered language activates gender schemata in the minds of speakers …This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a … statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross …
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This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and … the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed …
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Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4 …-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate …
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paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's population whose native language is a gender language. At the … demonstrates that the results are not driven by spurious correlations within language families. Gender languages appear to reduce …Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable … development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality …, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects of their operations. This paper reviews recent literature on gender and …
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While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly … wide range of societal inequalities that are not directly related to gender. It is also observed in other parts of the … science and reading. Such findings highlight how differences in socio-economic and cultural factors can affect gender gaps in …
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&A using same language in the involved companies. According with the type of operations, some political recommendations can be …
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