Unfortunately I don't know how others are dealing with this issue.  But I 
would cast my vote for one where I think the word is pretty gender neutral 
in all languages I know. 


On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 7:07:00 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:

> On 7/16/20 7:52 AM, Runxia Ye wrote:
>
> From the shortlisted options 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-8myIWOZZktR0HNtbFIiNA0RfDCvkfKKuNI0C3wcvbo/edit#heading=h.nuysq0m8yl6n>
>  
> selected by the governance board, I see words that in many languages have 
> both a male and a female variant. The "default" version implicitly implies 
> the the "male" variant. I know we are already taking a lot of different 
> aspects into account, so I want to bring to attention this implicit 
> association/unconscious bias that we may be having when choosing some of 
> these words.
>
> That's a good point. Do you happen to have any suggestions on how to deal 
> with this issue? I know a little bit of Spanish and am familiar with 
> gendered nouns there. I don't have any idea how people are addressing bias 
> in these languages.
>
> Jeff
>

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