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Gender identity. Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. [ 1] Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the individual's gender identity. [ 2] Gender expression typically reflects a person ...
Penelope Eckert. Penelope " Penny " Eckert (born 1942) is Albert Ray Lang Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Stanford University. [1] [2] She specializes in variationist sociolinguistics and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender. [1] [3] She served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2018.
The English Wikipedia is the primary [ a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.
Beard (companion) Beard is a slang term, American in origin, describing a person who is used, knowingly or unknowingly, as a date, romantic partner (boyfriend or girlfriend), or spouse either to conceal infidelity or to conceal one's sexual orientation. [ 1][ 2] The term also refers, in some areas, to anyone who acted on behalf of another, in ...
Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven (pictured). Based on a 1966 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside. It tells the story of Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) and the shadow organization that tries to ...
Bombshell (slang) The term bombshell is a forerunner to the term "sex symbol" used to describe popular women regarded as very attractive. [ 1][ 2] The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942. Bombshell has a longer history in its other, more general figurative meaning of a ...
A BBB-accredited company agrees to abide by a set of accreditation standards BBB says are "attributes of a better business." These include honesty in advertising, transparency, and responsiveness ...
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao ( transl. Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter) is a campaign launched by the Government of India. [ 1] It mainly targets the clusters in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Bihar and Delhi. [ 2][ 3]