Shannon Vallor


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2025

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EuroGEST: Investigating gender stereotypes in multilingual language models
Jacqueline Rowe | Mateusz Klimaszewski | Liane Guillou | Shannon Vallor | Alexandra Birch
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Large language models increasingly support multiple languages, yet most benchmarks for gender bias remain English-centric. We introduce EuroGEST, a dataset designed to measure gender-stereotypical reasoning in LLMs across English and 29 European languages. EuroGEST builds on an existing expert-informed benchmark covering 16 gender stereotypes, expanded in this work using translation tools, quality estimation metrics, and morphological heuristics. Human evaluations confirm that our data generation method results in high accuracy of both translations and gender labels across languages. We use EuroGEST to evaluate 24 multilingual language models from six model families, demonstrating that the strongest stereotypes in all models across all languages are that women are beautiful, empathetic and neat and men are leaders, strong, tough and professional. We also show that larger models encode gendered stereotypes more strongly and that instruction finetuned models continue to exhibit gendered stereotypes. Our work highlights the need for more multilingual studies of fairness in LLMs and offers scalable methods and resources to audit gender bias across languages.