Definition of gender
1a : a subclass within a grammatical class (such as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (such as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical formsb : membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclassc : an inflectional form (see inflection 3a) showing membership in such a subclass
2a : sex the feminine genderb : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
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Zarif is in the United States to speak Tuesday at a high-level meeting assessing progress toward meeting U.N. goals for 2030 to combat poverty, achieve gender equality, promote economic development and good governance, and preserve the environment.
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For Ms Landreth the right to swim is intimately bound up with the fight for equality, not just in gender but also in class.
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Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, college and universities are prohibited from allowing any discrimination on the basis of gender.
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But the leftists who run that English department place race (and gender) above excellence — a thorough rejection of Western values.
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Sometimes, very young men and women like to experiment with gender markers — like hyper-masculinity and -femininity — at the outset of adulthood.
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Supermarket gender ratios shift too, as men jam store aisles to stock up on calorie-laden food.
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But the two prime ministers also had more serious topics to discuss, including gender equality.
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Doty continues to fight for their own birth certificate to be changed also — as of now, B.C. is not one of the Canadian provinces considering including a non-binary gender option on birth certificates.
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Origin and Etymology of gender
Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender — more at kin
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Some of this work of grieving is undeniably gendered: Fulton and Martin’s memoir is an anomaly in that Martin, as the father, is a participant in telling Trayvon’s story.
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Herriman would switch the cat’s pronouns every so often, sometimes within a strip; in one, from 1921, Krazy switches gender four times in a single sentence.
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Origin and Etymology of gender
Middle English gendren, from Anglo-French gendrer, from Latin generare — more at generate
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