If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even inanimate objects— have grammatical gender. Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic are all examples of such ...

Powerful. Problematic. Caring. Logical. Would you assign these words to a specific gender, and if so, which one? That’s what SheKnows asked our Teen Council — and their answers provided a fascinating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether or not words like aggressive and support conjure explicitly gendered images in a job applicant’s mind, studies have shown that women are turned off by job descriptions that skew toward ...