Peer reviewed article on stereotype threat and pronouns needed

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OchonAgusOchonOh · 01/05/2025 09:06

I have found myself on th eEDI committee at work and am on the inclusiveness sub-committee. I expect at our next meeting it will be suggested that we encourage pronoun usage in email signatures.

Can any of you lovely people refer me to peer reviewed articles on stereo threat and how drawing attention to a woman's sex can have a detrimental effect on a woman's career progression? I'm currently having a look through google scholar but there is a massive amount of stuff that is mainly about trans people rather than the effect on women. Ideally I need peer reviewed and evidence based rather than opinion pieces.

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OchonAgusOchonOh · 01/05/2025 20:23

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 01/05/2025 18:41

Encouraging pronoun use is encouraging in-the-closet trans people to either lie or out themselves, a form of coercion that isn't acceptable at work.

It pressures those who are unsure of their gender feelings to "nail their colours to the mast" before they have made up their minds.

Having most people state pronouns also forces GC people to either lie about and deny, or stand out like sore thumbs and have colleagues infer their stance on, a belief that is both legally-protected and controversial.

It needs to be either quietly dropped or the word "optional" stated very clearly.

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My plan is to advocate for a position of being fully supportive of those who wish to include pronouns and fully supportive of those who don't wish to include them. Nobody should feel pressurised to include them or not to include them.

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