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 ...
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 ...
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 ...