@article{ref1,
title="Sex bias and language",
journal="Sex roles",
year="1982",
author="Wise, Erica and Rafferty, Janet",
volume="8",
number="12",
pages="1189-1196",
abstract="Recent research has suggested that in certain contexts male terms may fail to be gender neutral (Moulton, Robinson, & Elias, 1978). Stricker (1977) has proposed that even explicitly generic terms such as &quot;adult&quot; and &quot;person&quot; may not be gender neutral. The conclusions of the highly controversial and influential Broverman, Vogel, Broverman, Clarkson, and Rosenkrantz (1970) study were based directly on the assumption that &quot;adult&quot; is a gender-neutral term. The present study consisted of a modified replication of the Broverman et al. study followed by an addendum that asked subjects in the &quot;gender-neutral&quot; condition to indicate whether they had thought of a neutral, male, or female stimulus person. As predicted, subjects did not tend to think of a neutral stimulus person. The implications of this finding for sex-role stereotype research as well as for &quot;guidlines for nonsexist language&quot; are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0360-0025",
doi="10.1007/BF00287945",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00287945"
}