Five themes of subtle and systemic sexism emerged in a content analysis of the Journal of Social Work Education, 1998-1999: discrepancies in pronoun usage, sexist language, inconsistent attention to gender as a variable or construct, and inattention to gender as a framework in understandingtopics. The analysis also discovered a preponderance of nongender language, which raises questions about the implicit messages of gender-blind language.
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