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Most of us use gendered terminology on a regular basis without realizing it. For example, you might walk into a meeting and say, “Hey, guys!” — even if there are people in the meeting whose gender ...
The State Department defended a memo from Secretary of State Antony Blinken this month that urged staffers to steer clear of gendered language such as "mother" and "manpower." "If you look at that ...
What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...
Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral ...
The University of Cambridge in England is reportedly teaching students in a German class to adopt new gender-neutral versions of plural nouns in a bid to be more inclusive. The university acknowledged ...
A person wears a gender neutral pronoun jacket at a 'Rainbow Runway for Equality' to kick off Pride Month at Central World Mall last year in Bangkok, Thailand. Getty Images The terms “male” and ...
Most of the debates on the usage of “Latinx” — pronounced “la-teen-ex” — have taken place in the U.S. But the word has begun to spread into Spanish-speaking countries — where it hasn’t exactly been ...
Nearly 900 pronouns will be stripped next month from the “law of the land” in Contra Costa County. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to modernize the county’s ordinance ...
A billboard advertisement for the delivery service Flink in Berlin uses what's called the "gender star" in the word Freund*in, a gender-neutral word for romantic partner. HANOVER, Germany — How do you ...