The Interpretation of Grammatical Gender Among English Monolingual Speakers

My proposed study aims to discover how English monolingual speakers interpret the idea of grammatical gender and if they have an innate bias toward associating common English nouns with the masculine gender. In order to gather data, a Qualtrics survey was designed to test participants. Said survey will be limited to people who only speak English and will contain 10 different common nouns. After the presentation of each noun, participants will be given two options: masculine or feminine. They will indicate the perceived gender per each noun. After gathering the data, the number of words the participants assign as masculine will be compared against the expected value of 5 out of 10 using a one-way chi-square analysis. The analysis will reveal whether there is any inherent genderism among the participants. My hypothesis is that participants will assign a masculine grammatical gender to words at a greater than chance due to an existent internalized genderism within the participants