Lakoff - Gender and Colour Test | Language and Gender AQA A Level

“It is a widely held belief that women have larger colour vocabularies than do men. For example, Robin Lakoff (1975) states this as a fact and suggests as an explanation the observation that in this society women spend much more of their time on colour-related activities such as choosing clothes than men do”

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Put this statement to the test with your class! Fun little activity where students try and name as many as the colours as they can, then check them off and see if on average boys or girls have larger colour vocabularies.

• Links to Lakoffs findings
• Opportunity to counter argue with the diversity approach
• Potential NEA investigation