Practise how sex and gender influence socialization and development by interpreting how gendered language shapes expectations about people and social roles.
Research has shown that people who read a job description written only with male pronouns (e.g., he, his) are more likely to think of an employee as male than people who read a description that uses gender-neutral language (e.g., he or she). This finding is most closely linked to
the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
gender schema theory.
the social role hypothesis.
modeling.
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