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natural gender
noun
The gender that a noun, etc. would be expected to have, based on attributes of the referent, such as physical sex.
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English does not have "grammatical gender"; its way of expressing relationships that have to do with the sex or animateness of entities is based on real-world awareness ("natural gender"), in which males are "he," females are "she," and inanimates are "it".
There is no gender in Persian, nor are pronouns marked for natural gender.
The natural gender principle states that the grammatical gender of labels for male and female creatures is masculine and feminine, respectively.
This is partly due to the fact that the regularities override each other: morphological regularities override semantic regularities, such as the natural gender principle,2 and semantic regularities override phonological regularities (see Wegener, 1995).
These natural gender variations can combine in many ways.
Perhaps encouraging girls to engage in the political conversation starting as early as middle school (and I'd say even younger) will lead to a natural gender parity in political leadership sooner than later.
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Besides the two natural genders han and hon ("he" and "she"), there are also the two grammatical genders den and det, usually termed common and neuter.
The report highlights that in Bangladesh the female under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is 20 per cent lower than that of boys and there is no sign of a non-natural gender bias in under-five mortality.
If the natural disadvantages of gender should be countered, why not the natural disadvantages of age?
As a result, they look natural, diverse in gender, age, race, and style.
The innocence of her subjects begs the question: is there something "natural" about these gender norms or are they so permeated throughout our culture at such a young age that even infants seem to notice?
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