Werden Frauen und Männer im Bewerbungsgespräch unterschiedlich wahrgenommen?

Many years of empirical research on the linguistic behaviour of women and men have shown that gender differences are not as pronounced as has been believed. This raises the question why men are often conversationally more successful than women. In this context, the hypothesis of stereotypical language perception offers a possible explanation: According to this hypothesis, language is processed on the basis of gender stereotypes, hence male speakers are perceived as more self-confident and assertive, i.e. more successful, than women. The present article describes two studies that were conducted with German language material to test this assumption. The results offer tentative confirmation for stereotyped language perception: Study 1 shows that native speakers of German indeed possess stereotypical conceptions of „female“ and „male“ language behaviour. In study 2, the evaluation of applicants’ linguistic behaviour in a job interview depended to a certain extent on whether the applicant was believed to be female or male.

Werden Frauen und Männer im Bewerbungsgespräch unterschiedlich wahrgenommen?

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