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the fact or condition of being male, female or non-binary that people identify themselves with based on social and cultural roles
- Her research focused on the impact of gender on career opportunities in tech industries.
- Gender stereotypes can limit personal freedom and career choices for both men and women.
- The school curriculum has been updated to be more inclusive of gender diversity.
- The gender of the child was not revealed until after birth, as the parents preferred to keep it a surprise.
- Society often expects people to conform to traditional gender roles in terms of behavior and appearance.
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(grammar) a class of words indicating whether they are feminine, masculine, or neuter
Gender is a grammatical category that classifies nouns, pronouns, and adjectives based on their association with masculine, feminine, or neuter qualities. This classification can affect word forms and agreement in a sentence. For example, in languages like Spanish and French, nouns are often assigned a gender, such as "doctor," which can be "médico" for a male doctor and "médica" for a female doctor in Spanish. In English, gender is less prominent, but it still appears in pronouns, such as "he" for masculine and "she" for feminine. Understanding gender is important for maintaining grammatical agreement and clarity in communication.
- In many languages, such as Spanish and French, nouns are assigned a gender—either masculine or feminine—regardless of the actual gender of the object they represent.
- German is unique in that it also includes a neuter gender, in addition to masculine and feminine, for classifying nouns.
- English does not have grammatical gender in the same way as many other languages, although pronouns like 'he,' 'she,' and 'it' can indicate natural gender.
- The gender of nouns in languages like Latin and Greek is determined by their endings and can sometimes be unpredictable for non-native speakers.
- In linguistics, gender is a grammatical category that plays a role in agreement between nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles within a sentence.
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