Arbeitspapier
Gendered Language
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 4,000 languages which together account for more than 99% of the world's population. We find a robust negative cross-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate these associations in four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, showing that educational attainment and female labor force participation are lower among those whose native languages use grammatical gender.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13126
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Thema
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grammatical gender
language
gender
linguistic determinism
labor force participation
educational attainment
gender gaps
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Jakiela, Pamela
Ozier, Owen
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Jakiela, Pamela
- Ozier, Owen
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020
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