Pilcher for interaction, Lieberson for fashion, courts for the rules. Baby-site “gender strength meters” are not faculty.
People
- Jane Pilcher b. 1964 · United Kingdom — Names and gender
Sociological work on names as gender practice.
- Stanley Lieberson 1933–2018 · United States — Typed endings
Fashion as a gendering machine.
- SSA / ONS methodologists ongoing · U.S. / E&W — Split files
They built the columns researchers use.
- German and EU family-law scholars 2000s– · Europe — Sex-marking cases
Namensrecht under equality review.
- Marianne Bertrand b. 1970 · Belgium / U.S. — Stacked signals
Gendered names also carry other cues.
- Trans legal advocates 2010s– · various — Unbundling
Lived name as a dignity technology.
A good voice can tell a drift from a statute from a stereotype.