Good Secretaries, Bad Truck Drivers? Occupational Gender Stereotypes in Sentiment Analysis
Jayadev Bhaskaran, Isha Bhallamudi · 2019
In this work, we investigate the presence of occupational gender stereotypes in sentiment analysis models.Such a task has implications for reducing implicit biases in these models, which are being applied to an increasingly wide variety of downstream tasks.We release a new gender-balanced dataset 1 of 800 sentences pertaining to specific professions and propose a methodology for using it as a test bench to evaluate sentiment analysis models.We evaluate the presence of occupational gender stereotypes in 3 different models using our approach, and explore their relationship with societal perceptions of occupations.