Researchers have revealed a link between role-nouns (e.g. job titles) in gendered languages and gender equality. The study, which examined whether the masculine form in the plural in German is ...
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 ...
Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Does talking about an object as masculine ...
IN HER ADVANCED FRENCH THROUGH FILM class this spring, Katherine Dauge-Roth had seven students who identified as women and one who identified as a man. She started using the feminine plural étudiantes ...
Languages in which nouns are given male or female status are linked to gender inequality, according to a new study that compares languages and equality across the globe. Surprisingly, though, ...
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” ...
Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 8: When Nouns Grew Genitals Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab ∙ Play in Stitcher Languages all across the world have what’s called ...