Champagne, beer, or coffee? A corpus of gender-related and neutral words.
A list of gender-related and gender-neutral words for use in testing gender stereotyping and memory was created and evaluated. Words were rated by samples of undergraduates at universities located in the northeast, southeast, and south-central United States. A substantial list of masculine, feminine, and gender-neutral words was identified. These lists allow researchers to construct large lists of gender-associated words while being able to control for extraneous variables, such as word frequency and word length. In addition, the high reliability across the samples suggests that gender ratings are a fairly stable phenomenon. Applications for this list are discussed. The word lists presented in Tables 1-3 and the raw data analyzed in this article may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive/.
Crawford
Jarret T
JT
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. jarretc@eden.rutgers.edu
Leynes
P Andrew
PA
Mayhorn
Christopher B
CB
Bink
Martin L
ML
D001244:Association; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014825:Vocabulary