title: Can societal language amendments change gender representation? The case of Norway.
abstract: This study investigates the influence of stereotypical information and the grammatical masculine on the representation of gender in Norwegian by applying a sentence evaluation paradigm. In this study participants had to decide whether a second sentence containing explicit information about the gender of one of more of the characters (e.g. . . . one of the women . . . ) was a sensible continuation of a first sentence introducing a role name (e.g. The spies came out . . . ). Participants' representations were biased by the stereotypicality of the role names when reading female (e.g. nurses) and male (e.g. pilots) stereotyped role names (replicating findings from the English sample in a previous publication), but male biased when reading neutral role names (replicating findings from the French and the German samples in a previous publication).
authors.affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. ute.gabriel@svt.ntnu.no
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gabriel
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gygax
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway; D009790:Occupations; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D013240:Stereotyping