In this talk, I will present further work on the role of gender in lexical access. I will first present the results of a monolingual study in German, which provides evidence that gender also plays a role in lexical access in this language. The results of the study suggest that gender may influence processing before the noun onset is heard and the actual process of word recognition begins, but rather during earlier stages of lexical access. Following this, I will then summarize the main findings of my experiments until now and sketch a potential connectionist model intended to account for all with a common architecture.