It’s easy to see gender inequality as perpetuated by a few toxically masculine men, but gender bias is embedded in our social systems in many subtle ways too. One system that scientists have been ...

Abbie, who is an outspoken feminist and proud political progressive, took issue with the spiritual community's use of terms like 'masculine and feminine energy'. The reality star said it only served ...

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 ...

Is water male or female – and does it really matter? Unlike languages such as French, Spanish and German, English does not allocate gender to words. Although some things, ships and countries for ...

British Land has agreed the £401m sale of West End offices. You may have missed it between Brexit drama and more Covid-19 news, but this week Clifford Chance announced it had ditched traditional ...

It was a terrific line of poetry, guaranteed to blow the teenage mind in French class. “Je est un autre.” I is another. So wrong, but also so right. The messy complexity of lived experience running up ...

Magic circle firm Clifford Chance is striving to eliminate ‘gendered language’ in its legal documents worldwide, discouraging terms such as ‘chairman’ and removing ‘Dear Sirs’ from letters. Every ...

The old lady of Threadneedle Street might be no longer after the Bank of England promised to banish gendered language from its rulebooks. The Bank, nicknamed The Old Lady for most of its 300-year ...

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 ...

The city of Berkeley in California has passed an ordinance to ban the use of gender-specific language in its municipal code. The new regulation will mean that terms like “manhole” and “firemen” are ...