Word Embeddings Quantify 100 Years of Gender and Ethnic Stereotypes

Understand

Word embeddings use vectors to represent words such that the geometry between vectors captures semantic relationship between the words.

• In this paper, we develop a framework to demonstrate how the temporal dynamics of the embedding can be leveraged to quantify changes in stereotypes and attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities in the 20th and 21st centuries in the United States.
• We integrate word embeddings trained on 100 years of text data with the U.S.
• Census to show that changes in the embedding track closely with demographic and occupation shifts over time.