Must-Read: Victor Gay, Daniel Hicks and Estefania Santacreu-Vasut: Languages and Gender Norms

Must-Read: Victor Gay, Daniel Hicks and Estefania Santacreu-Vasut: [Languages and Gender Norms[]:

Forms of gender inequality are higher in countries where the language distinguishes gender…

…But these patterns could arise spuriously, as languages and other cultural institutions have co-evolved…. An epidemiological approach to isolate language from other cultural forces… provide[s] direct evidence on whether language matters… how gender roles have been shaped, how they are perpetuated, and, ultimately, how they can be changed.