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Jun 25, 2017 · The feminist perspective on women’s literacy has raised the question about how far literacy programs challenge women’s traditional roles (Dighe 1995). Stromquist ( 1990 ) suggested that women are encouraged to adapt within the patriarchal education system, rather than transforming those structures.
- Anna Robinson-Pant
- a.robinson-pant@uea.ac.uk
Significant progress has been made to close gender gaps in education over the last 25 years. Nevertheless, gender inequalities persist and education remains elusive for many girls. UNESCO estimates that 11.2 million girls and young women may drop out or not have access to school due the pandemic.
- Gender in Language
- Language and Gender Equality
- Grammatical Gender in Language and Gender Equality
- Overview of Current Investigation
- Hypotheses
As noted above, the use of gender specific nouns and pronouns is one way of classifying gender in language. A lack of grammatical gender, however, does not necessarily reflect gender neutrality (Braun 2001; Engelberg 2002), and so it would be mistaken to believe that the grammatically genderless languages automatically lead to a more gender-neutral...
Increasingly scholars and researchers recognize the power that asymmetries in lexical gender, male false generics, and the systematic way language becomes gendered can have on social gender stereotypes and inequities in status between men and women (Schneider 2004). For example, feminist scholars have long decried that masculine generics are androc...
Although ample empirical research demonstrates that reducing the use of masculine generic pronouns promotes the inclusion of women, there are no empirical studies that we are aware of which attempt to investigate the overall relationship between all three grammatical gender groups and gender equality. Wasserman and Weseley (2009) demonstrate that g...
In the current investigation, we explored the relationship between countries’ grammatical gender language systems and indices of gender equality. To do this, we categorized an extensive list of countries as having either a gendered, natural gender, or genderless orientation, and then used grammatical gender system as a fixed grouping variable to co...
Given the previous research outline above demonstrating the difficulty involved in crafting gender fair communications in gendered languages, we anticipated the following: 1. Hypothesis 1.Countries predominated by a gendered language system should consistently evidence less gender equality across the various indexes than countries where natural gen...
Apr 3, 2017 · Girls’ education actors regularly reference “gendered barriers,” “gender perspectives,” and call for developing “girls’ life skills” without hesitation. But these concepts seldom ...
Jan 24, 2019 · 38 percent of the world’s population speaks a gendered language. Gendered languages classify objects as either masculine or feminine (or sometimes as neuter). Gendered languages are associated with worse labor market participation rates for women and more regressive gender norms.
In the context of women's literacy programmes, there is a growing recognition that promoting literacy instruction only in participants’ mother tongue could be seen to promote gender inequality.
Aug 21, 2023 · Women with overlapping intersectional identities—like class, race, ethnic or religious minority, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability status—are especially at risk. Without the necessary digital knowledge and skills, women risk being left behind by the digital transformation.
