PUT in simple words, gender tells us whether a noun or pronoun is male or female. Technically speaking, in grammar, the word ‘gender’ means a class of words in which nouns and pronouns are placed and ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

Movements to make gendered languages less sexist have existed for years. Many languages have a “default masculine”, where a generic (say) student or professor is given masculine gender and mixed ...

WHAT ARE YOUR pronouns? In English, the most common answers are “he” or “she”. But a growing number of people identify as neither male nor female, and ask to be referred to with novel pronouns. “They” ...