{"id":64375,"date":"2014-10-11T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=64375"},"modified":"2014-10-11T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T19:56:17","slug":"map-of-the-week-57-of-languages-do-not-have-gendered-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/10\/11\/map-of-the-week-57-of-languages-do-not-have-gendered-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week: 57% of Languages Do Not Have Gendered Pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The map below is an interactive\u00a0available<\/a> at the\u00a0World Atlas of Language Structures. \u00a0It represents an extensive, but not quite comprehensive collection of world languages. Each dot represents one. White dots are languages that do not include gendered pronouns. No “he” or “she.” Just a gender neutral word that means person.<\/p>\n

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The colored dots refer to languages with\u00a0gendered pronouns, but there are more than one kind, as indicated by the Values key. The number on the right, further, indicates how many languages fit into each group. Notice that the majority of languages represented here (57%) DO NOT have gendered pronouns.<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a>The map at the site is interactive. Go\u00a0there<\/a>\u00a0to click on those dots and explore.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The map below is an interactive\u00a0available at the\u00a0World Atlas of Language Structures. \u00a0It represents an extensive, but not quite comprehensive collection of world languages. Each dot represents one. White dots are languages that do not include gendered pronouns. No “he” or “she.” Just a gender neutral word that means person. The colored dots refer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,23384,55,260],"class_list":["post-64375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-international-comparisons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/10\/21.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64401,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64375\/revisions\/64401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}