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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of girls laugh together at school. The word “girl” evokes the thought of a female child, while “boy” conjures the thought ...

Gender biases around male and female roles and under-representation of female characters appeared in textbooks from around the world, with male-coded words appearing twice as often as female-coded ...

In the workplace, even subtle differences in language choice can influence the perception of gender for better or worse. These choices fall into two main categories: minimizing the role of gender by ...

“Polysexual,” “amalgagender” and “gay marry” are among the new words and phrases added to Dictionary.com this year, in a revision that also included the removal of gendered pronouns from hundreds of ...

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) ...