Sentence examples for gendered words from inspiring English sources

To obtain gender meta-data for biographies in the English Wikipedia edition we match article URIs with the dataset by Bamman and Smith [8], which contains inferred gender for biographies based on the number of grammatically gendered words (e.g., he, she, him, her, etc).

This is how problems with what Bowlby called "attachment" come to be transmitted down the generations; how, in Larkin's narrowly gendered words, "Man hands on misery to man".

In Amazon's case, when the engineers initially discovered that its tool was penalizing female candidates, they reprogrammed it to ignore explicitly gendered words like "women's". They soon discovered that the revised system was still picking up on implicitly gendered words verbs that were highly correlated with men over women, such as "executed" and "captured"—and using that to make its decisions.

I cut my teeth on music blogs, writing terrible album reviews packed with empty platitudes, phrases I didn't understand ("the rhythm section is undeniable, but far too high in the mix"), and generic, gendered words like "chanteuse".

Avoid using gendered words.

The group sorts colored paper cards with gendered words written on them in magic marker; some words are more obviously associated with a certain gender, like "beard" or "breastfeeding," while others are, at least in the west, more versatile, like "cooking" or "supervisor".

First, there was #BanBossy, backed by the likes of Beyonce, aimed at encouraging young girls to be assertive -- and to ignore a gendered word used to stigmatize women leaders.

"Nagging" is a gendered word (much like "bossy") that's often used to describe a woman's annoying or otherwise negative behavior: the girlfriend who's checking in (again) to see if you've picked up the dog's medicine or the wife who makes a comment under her breath about the suitcase that hasn't been unpacked for two weeks.

Develop job-advertisement guidelines that advise steering clear of masculine-gendered words like "competitive," "assertive," and "ambitious". Track whether those guidelines are followed.

In addition to efforts to further bias-proof the salary formula, the company has scrubbed job descriptions of gendered pronouns and words and rethought conversations about the importance of "culture fit" during the hiring process.

His son Willie Geist, a current co-anchor of the third hour of "Today," noted that media coverage of Abramson seemed particularly gendered because of the words ascribed to her. "I thought the words -- especially on that first day or two -- the adjectives used to describe her were just horrible," he said.