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Lucie Escasain

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Open access Aug 2026

Can gender-fair language modify vocational representations? Assessing the impact of grammatical form and stereotypes on adolescents’ perceived warmth, perceived competence, and anticipated sense of belonging for different occupations

In recent years, the use of gender-fair language in grammatical gender languages like French has been increasingly encouraged to counteract cognitive biases that arise when the grammatical masculine is used as a generic. Yet little is known about how these language forms affect adolescents for whom vocational interests...

Sayaka Sato, Mégane Pittet, Lucie Escasain et al. · 0 citations
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"Speaking for gender equality"

Adolescents’ aspirations are influenced by gender stereotypes, whereby girls tend to pursue careers in communal roles while boys tend to pursue STEM careers and agentic positions. Language and linguistic interventions appear to be a promising avenue. In French, a grammatical gender language, the generic use of the masc...

Lucie Escasain · 0 citations

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