The University of Minnesota Department of French and Italian hosted a seminar Feb. 28 on Romance languages evolving to include nonbinary and gender-diverse people and how second-language classrooms ...

The use of gender-inclusive language may not in itself help women in the workplace, a new study shows. Researchers could not find that its use in English and German had an impact on the short-term ...

When an exam board for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recently clarified that students are now permitted to use ...

Ferda Ataman, independent German commissioner for anti-discrimination, speaks at the Left Party conference at Vienna House by Wyndham Andel's Berlin. "Banning people from using inclusive language is a ...

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 ...

Conservative commentator Sydney Watson has caused a stir after arguing the use of inclusive language for typically gendered labels was “dehumanizing.” A group of researchers from the US and Canada ...

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT - A Vermont school is sparking controversy after the decision to drop binary language from its health class in favor of "person-first" language that the district said is more ...

Reflecting on the existential challenge of being transgender, Jamie MaKinster offers suggestions for inclusive campus policies and practices around gendered language. Being transgender, especially at ...

The move toward so-called inclusive language finds its origins in the feminist movement where activists considered sexist the generic masculine form of words, which has perennially been understood to ...

A few months ago we had a lively and interesting discussion on the subject of changing languages for the sake of gender equality. I wasn't exactly a fan of the idea because my mother language (french) ...

In contrast, grammatical gender languages are languages like French, Spanish, Russian, or Hebrew that assign all nouns into a grammatical category of masculine, feminine, or, in some cases, neuter. In ...