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[2408.02948] Are Female Carpenters like Blue Bananas? A Corpus Investigation of Occupation Gender Typicality

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View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:People tend to use language to mention surprising properties of events: for example, when a banana is blue, we are more likely to mention color than when it is yellow. This fact is taken to suggest that yellowness is somehow a typical feature of bananas, and blueness is exceptional. Similar to how a yellow color is typical of bananas, there may also be genders that are typical of occupations. In this work, we explore this question using information theoretic techniques coupled with corpus statistic analysis. In two distinct large corpora, we do not find…

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