Implicit Gender-biased Speeches in Workplace: Embedded Stereotypes and Effects on Women’s Career Development
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.064How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Stereotypes; Stereotyped speech; Generics; Women’s career; Benevolent sexism
- Abstract
Women’s career path still meets with many challenges because of sexism, which is regarded as a special case of ethnic prejudice. Based on the nature and sources of sexism, it is worth highlighting that the root of sexism is underpinned by a set of traditional gender stereotypes toward women. Stereotypes make claims about generalized and essentialized features about social kinds. They are cognitively embedded in people’s daily speeches on occupational occasions and sometimes expressed in the form of generics. The author terms and analyzes two typical types of speech in occupational occasions: stereotyped questions in occupational contexts and benevolent speeches, inclusive of showing warmth toward women and giving praises. The analysis is done from the perspective of linguistics, psychology, and philosophy of language. Through the discussion, this paper argues that stereotypes covertly and in most of the case, unconsciously embedded in speeches expressed toward women in occupational contexts. Moreover, based on the analysis, the paper shows the adverse effects stereotypes have on women’s career development. Conclusively, the stereotypes embedded in occupational speeches potentially reduce women’s job opportunities and undermine their conceptions of working abilities.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yijia Chai PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - Implicit Gender-biased Speeches in Workplace: Embedded Stereotypes and Effects on Women’s Career Development BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 341 EP - 346 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.064 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.064 ID - Chai2022 ER -