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Gendered Language on the Economics Job Market Rumors Forum
Alice H. Wu
AEA Papers and Proceedings. May 2018, Vol. 108, No. : Pages 175-179

Gendered Language on the Economics Job Market Rumors Forum

Alice H. Wu1

1University of California, Berkeley (email: )

Abstract

This paper examines the existence of an unwelcoming or stereotypical culture using evidence on how women and men are portrayed in anonymous discussions on the Economics Job Market Rumors forum (EJMR). I use a Lasso-Logistic model to measure gendered language in EJMR postings, identifying the words that are most strongly associated with discussions about one gender or the other. I find that the words most predictive of a post about a woman are typically about physical appearance or personal information, whereas those most predictive of a post about a man tend to focus on academic or professional characteristics.