Gendered language and gendered violence

Lewis Davis, Astghik Mavisakalyan () and Clas Weber

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024, vol. 52, issue 4, 755-772

Abstract: This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a statistically significant relationship between speaking a gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross-section of countries. Motivated by this evidence, we conduct an individual-level analysis of the effect of speaking a gendered language on beliefs about the justifiability of intimate partner violence, controlling for a wide variety of individual level socioeconomic characteristics as well as country, religion, language family and ethnicity fixed effects. Speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results are consistent with complementarity between the cultural and cognitive effects of language on the attitudes to intimate partner violence.

Keywords: Gender-based violence; Intimate partner violence; Sex-based grammar; Gendered language; Gender norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D91 J12 J16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.008

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