It is more than a decade since former home secretary Jack Straw announced future laws would be gender-neutral. Use of male pronouns to apply to both sexes was potentially confusing, he argued, and ...

The legal profession is making progress on improving gender balance and representation at all levels, but there is still some way to go. Women now make up the majority of all solicitors on the roll, ...

“Language is patriarchal”-- this topic has received much attention from a gender studies perspective. Language is a powerful way to reinforce and normalize the dominance of men over women within socio ...

Being able to describe who we are and how we feel is something we all need (Picture: Ella Byworth for Metro.co.uk) In Iceland we’ve started expanding our language to include a third pronoun with great ...

“Hey, guys!” It’s the greeting that launched a thousand meetings and Zoom calls. Etymologists trace the term “guys” to the historical figure Guy Fawkes. It’s evolved from the name of one man who ...

Explore how gendered language contributes to sexism and shapes perceptions of gender in society. Discover the impact of language evolution. Take a second and try to talk about a person without ...

Workplace language encodes gendered expectations that feed into who we hire, how we assess people and who we promote, holding some people back. Erin Oldford, an assistant professor of finance at ...

The news follows reports in the Telegraph that teachers were advised to use gender-neutral language in a lecture organised by the NEU teaching union, replacing words such as “boy” and “girl” with ...

The University of Pittsburgh's LGBTQIA+ society has issued a new guide warning students against the use of gendered language in an effort to avoid offending transgender and non-binary students. Its ...

Banning gendered language in schools is “completely unnecessary”, the Government had said. The news follows reports in the Telegraph that teachers were advised to use gender-neutral language in a ...