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Gender People Male Female Refer Men Women Pronouns

word gender
definition
noun
Gender is the state of being male or female in relation to the social and cultural roles that are considered appropriate for men and women .
It is illegal to discriminate on the grounds of race, gender or sexual orientation.
Gender stereotyping can be as damaging for men as it can for women.
Some people experience a mismatch between their gender identity and their biological sex.
You can use gender to refer to one of a range of identities that includes female, male, a combination of both, and neither.
Membership is open to people of all genders.
The new law would allow people to change gender by filling in a form.
Each of them identifies with a different gender from the one they were born with.
Some people refer to the fact that a person is male or female as his or her gender .
Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.
Some people refer to all male people or all female people as a particular gender .
...the different abilities and skills of the two genders.
In grammar, the gender of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word's gender can affect its form and behaviour . In English, only personal pronouns such as 'she', reflexive pronouns such as 'itself', and possessive determiners such as 'his' have gender.
In both Welsh and Irish the word for 'moon' is of feminine gender.
inflections genders
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