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There is no case in 21st-century Britain for default gender, let alone assuming that default is male.
Sexual freedom, for women no less than men, "the default gender," to borrow a term from Franzen's second novel, "Strong Motion," is yet another form of entrapment.
Or take Banawá, another Amazonian language, in which the default gender of an unknown person or mixed group of people is feminine, not masculine as in most languages.
Davis argued that by reversing the default gender of a character, that character instantly becomes more interesting – be they a doctor, a lawyer, or a criminal on the run.
"But we haven't looked at any domains that are female-dominated, so it's also possible that when the default gender in a field is male, using the full name is a way to highlight that the person is a woman in a male-dominated field," she said.
And male, in sheer numbers, is the default gender for artists.
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But this recording was ineligible for the album, because Boucher didn't write it: it was a cover of a track by Default Genders, Brooks's current project.
Previously, Google would default gender-neutral words to the masculine form.
Same-sex couples cannot default to gender when deciding who does what at home.
And while it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting.
The narrator, a mother of two boys, says of herself, "While it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt insulting".
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