Sentence examples for gender connotations from inspiring English sources

It tested parents' tolerance of ambiguity, since it lacked strong gender connotations.

However, extant research has yet to clarify which are the critical dimensions lending these gender connotations to food and thus impacting on the willingness to eat it.

Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of "its" — are entirely oblivious to.

A recent study found that merely changing the gender connotation of the name of the "CEO" on otherwise identical resumes led potential investors to make drastically different decisions.

In addition to these functional aspects, historically established stereotypes and gender-specific connotations often surface, suggesting who uses the tool, in what domain it is used, and what artifacts it brings into being (Beaudry 2006).

Avoid using jokes that use race, gender, politics, or sexual connotations.

Women describe being given gender-specific labels with negative connotations when they work hard or perform well – where, they ask, are the male equivalents for phrases such as 'ball-breaker', 'battleaxe' or 'harridan'?

Others, like Lassègue (1998), place much weight on this game of gender pretence and its real or imaginary connotations.

Given that butts are gender neutral and represent a host of positive and negative connotations, they make for a fascinating topic of study.

Within social sciences, and gender studies in particular, the category of the category of gender has connotations of power misbalances between and within men and women and consequent differences in their social roles and positions.

Key words in the essay are misused; word choices lack precision; word choices have connotations the writer seems unaware of; language may not be gender-inclusive.