Jennifer Dorman is the head of User Insights at Babel. It's an online language learning platform and a bit of a language expert. "Grammatical gender is a classification system for nouns," said Dorman.

It’s easy to see gender inequality as perpetuated by a few toxically masculine men, but gender bias is embedded in our social systems in many subtle ways too. One system that scientists have been ...

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So to take this outta the election thread. We have a fair amount of gendered language out there (I'm a bad Spanish speaker, and my father is originally from Mexico) so we can include the Romance ...

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) ...

A comprehensive study from NYU Abu Dhabi's Science Division analyzed scripts from nearly 7,000 episodes of children's TV shows in the United States spanning 1960 to 2018. It uncovered enduring biased ...