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...