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The Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, Poland, features both male and female editors. [1] [2] The initial model for the sculpture featured only men.[3] [4]Gender bias includes various gender-related disparities on Wikipedia, particularly the overrepresentation of men among both volunteer contributors and article subjects (although the English Wikipedia has almost 400,000 encyclopedic biographies ...
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The Oxford Etymological Dictionary of the English Language of 1882 defined gender as kind, breed, sex, derived from the Latin ablative case of genus, like genere natus, which refers to birth. [25] The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED1, Volume 4, 1900) notes the original meaning of gender as "kind" had already become obsolete.
Reviewed by Bri and Tilman Bayer. A Nature paper titled "Online Images Amplify Gender Bias" [1] studies: "gender associations of 3,495 social categories (such as 'nurse' or 'banker') in more than one million images from Google, [English] Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and in billions of words from these platforms"
Early influential works include Edwin I. Megargee’s 1969 article on gender difference in leader emergence, and Virginia Schein’s 1973 article “Think Manager-Think Male” on gendered stereotypes. [48] However, gender was hardly discussed in the 1981 and 1990 editions of what would become The Bass Handbook of Leadership. [17]
Similarly, a 2015 study by Jussim et al. reviewed four studies of racial stereotypes, and seven studies of gender stereotypes regarding demographic characteristics, academic achievement, personality and behavior, and argued that some aspects of ethnic and gender stereotypes are accurate while stereotypes concerning political affiliation and ...
The German language is heavily inflected for gender, number, and case; nearly all nouns denoting the occupations or statuses of human beings are gender-differentiated. For more gender-neutral constructions, gerund nouns are sometimes used instead, as this eliminates the grammatical gender distinction in the plural, and significantly reduces it ...
LGBT rights organizations have advised against mandatory gender-based dress codes. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), "If an employer has a dress code, it should modify it to avoid gender stereotypes and enforce it consistently." The HRC lists policies requiring women to wear skirts or men to wear pants as an example of a dress code ...