The adjective gender-neutral may describe:
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The adjective
gender-neutral may describe:
- Gender-specific job title
A gender-specific job title is a name of a job that also specifies or implies the gender of the person performing that job, such as stewardess...
- Gender-neutral language
Gender-neutral language, gender-inclusive language, or gender neutrality is linguistic prescriptivism that aims at minimizing assumptions regarding the gender of human referents...
(see also gender neutrality in English)
- Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage is a term used to describe a legally or socially recognized marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Other terms used to describe this type of recognition include gay marriage or gender-neutral marriage.Same-sex marriage is a civil rights,...
- Gender-neutral pronoun
This term designates two distinct grammatical phenomena:* pronouns/periphrastics that have been assigned nontraditional meanings in modern times out of a concern for gender-equity, and* genderless pronouns that occur traditionally in human languages....
- Gender-neutral toilet
A gender-neutral toilet, also known as a unisex toilet or a gender-free toilet is a public restroom or toilet that is available for use by either the male or female gender, and includes family restrooms....
It is sometimes confused with the
neuter grammatical genderIn linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called noun classes, are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few which belong to several classes at once....
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