Arbeitspapier

Gendered Language and Gendered Violence

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-section of countries. Motivated by this evidence, we conduct an individual-level analysis exploiting the differences in the language structures spoken by individuals with a shared religious and ethnic background residing in the same country. We show that speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results are consistent with the theoretical possibility that gendered language activates gender schemata in the minds of speakers, increasing the salience of gender distinctions and existing gender norms which legitimize gendered violence.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1127

Classification
Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Subject
gender
language
cultural norms
intimate partner violence

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Davis, Lewis
Mavisakalyan, Astghik
Weber, Clas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Global Labor Organization (GLO)
(where)
Essen
(when)
2022

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Davis, Lewis
  • Mavisakalyan, Astghik
  • Weber, Clas
  • Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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