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Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) [1] should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender.
Yellow represents people whose gender exists outside the binary, purple represents those whose gender is a mixture of—or between—male and female, black represents people who have no gender, and white represents those who embrace many or all genders. [128] Genderfluid people, who fall under the genderqueer umbrella, also have their own flag.
Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions, [1] formation of phrases in a coequal manner, and discontinuing the collective use of male or female terms. [2]
Supporters of gender-neutral language argue that the use of gender-specific language often implies male superiority or reflects an unequal state of society. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to The Handbook of English Linguistics , generic masculine pronouns and gender-specific job titles are instances "where English linguistic convention has historically ...
Takes on both male and female forms, alternating between using he/him and she/her pronouns, and does not feel like he has a gender or orientation. [125] Eleodie Maracavanya Star Wars: Aftermath: Chuck Wendig: Non-binary 2015–2017 A pirate ruler referred to by either male, female or gender-neutral pronouns like "zhe" or "zher". [126] [127] Mogumo
For example, Classical Greek λαγώς (lagṓs) 'hare' is masculine, but can refer to male and female hares (he-hares and she-hares), and ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēks) 'fox' is feminine, but can refer to male and female foxes (he-foxes and she-foxes). [3] For this meaning, the term common gender is different from epicene gender.
In two of her studies, half of the participants (after exposure to gender neutral language) had male-biased imagery but the rest of the participants displayed no gender bias at all. In her third study, only males showed a masculine-bias (after exposure to gender neutral language) – females showed no gender bias.
Languages with grammatical gender, such as French, German, Greek, and Spanish, present unique challenges when it comes to creating gender-neutral language.Unlike genderless languages like English, constructing a gender-neutral sentence can be difficult or impossible in these languages due to the use of gendered nouns and pronouns.