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Quantifying Gender Bias Towards Politicians in Cross-Lingual Language Models ...
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Quantifying Gender Biases Towards Politicians on Reddit ...
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Abstract:
Despite attempts to increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equal female representation. This is likely tied to implicit gender biases against women in authority. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of gender biases that appear in online political discussion. To this end, we collect 10 million comments on Reddit in conversations about male and female politicians, which enables an exhaustive study of automatic gender bias detection. We address not only misogynistic language, but also benevolent sexism in the form of seemingly positive attitudes examining both sentiment and dominance attributed to female politicians. Finally, we conduct a multi-faceted study of gender bias towards politicians investigating both linguistic and extra-linguistic cues. We assess 5 different types of gender bias, evaluating coverage, combinatorial, nominal, sentimental and lexical biases extant in social media language and discourse. Overall, we find that, contrary to previous ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; Computers and Society cs.CY; FOS Computer and information sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2112.12014
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12014
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