'Women Are Capable Too!' Exploring Intersectionality and Challenging CaLD Gender Stereotypes at Australian Universities

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Title: 'Women Are Capable Too!' Exploring Intersectionality and Challenging CaLD Gender Stereotypes at Australian Universities
Language: English
Authors: Ana Tankosic (ORCID 0000-0003-1658-6678), Sender Dovchin (ORCID 0000-0003-4327-7096)
Source: TESOL Journal. 2024 15(1).
Availability: Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, Equal Education, Migrants, Migrant Problems, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Bias, Student Diversity, Intersectionality, Language Usage, Power Structure
Geographic Terms: Australia
DOI: 10.1002/tesj.806
ISSN: 1056-7941
1949-3533
Abstract: With a focus on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) women, this article will discuss the underlying gender inequalities and stereotypes these women experience in Australian tertiary institutions through reflections of translingual discrimination. Translingual discrimination refers to the ideologies and practices that produce unequal linguistic power relationships between CaLD communities and dominant communities of the host society, focusing on the central role that language plays in the enduring relevance of discrimination disparity. Because of CaLD women's translingual identities, these groups experience such aspects of translingual discrimination as accentism, naming practices, linguistic subordination, deskilling, and stereotyping, which eventually affect their well-being and economic security. CaLD women need a linguistically and culturally "safe space" where they will be supported and appreciated based on their capabilities and skills and not subjected to objectification, femininity evaluations, and derogatory actions. Opportunities for women should persist because, unfortunately, in men-dominated fields, these opportunities are still necessary to support and include women.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1433437
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:With a focus on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) women, this article will discuss the underlying gender inequalities and stereotypes these women experience in Australian tertiary institutions through reflections of translingual discrimination. Translingual discrimination refers to the ideologies and practices that produce unequal linguistic power relationships between CaLD communities and dominant communities of the host society, focusing on the central role that language plays in the enduring relevance of discrimination disparity. Because of CaLD women's translingual identities, these groups experience such aspects of translingual discrimination as accentism, naming practices, linguistic subordination, deskilling, and stereotyping, which eventually affect their well-being and economic security. CaLD women need a linguistically and culturally "safe space" where they will be supported and appreciated based on their capabilities and skills and not subjected to objectification, femininity evaluations, and derogatory actions. Opportunities for women should persist because, unfortunately, in men-dominated fields, these opportunities are still necessary to support and include women.
ISSN:1056-7941
1949-3533
DOI:10.1002/tesj.806