The group sorts colored paper cards with gendered words written on them in magic marker; some words are more obviously associated with a certain gender, like "beard" or "breastfeeding," while others are, at least in the west, more versatile, like "cooking" or "supervisor".
This simple exercise on gender words teaches key stage 1 students the different terms used to refer to men and women.
Those derogatory terms are, by vast majority, terms that police gender: words like "fag," but also words that mark the sex and sexuality of girls through slut shaming.
Moten proposes, as an alternative to "gender," the word "blur".
We tried to identify the factors that could have led to that and gender neutral wording was one of them," said Maria Svedin, when I called her last Thursday.
The research from ZipRecruiter found that job listings with gender neutral word received 42percentt more responses that gendered listings.
Not sexism; that's a gender neutral word.
Tying the word to gender does not resonant with me one bit.
"The national government recognises sex but not gender, or – in other words – the result of realignment surgery, but not the process".
