{"id":562,"date":"2015-05-29T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=562"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:44:49","slug":"gender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Languages often use two kinds of gender: natural gender, referring to living things of different sexes; and grammatical gender, relating to inanimate objects and concepts which are categorised as feminine, masculine or even neuter. English only uses natural gender, and often makes no distinction between male and female where other languages would (for example, in most professional categories). Nonetheless, avoiding gender can be a complex issue that requires care, particularly in the use of <em>they<\/em> or <em>he or she<\/em>, professional categories which do distinguish gender, married women\u2019s names, titles and problematic words. Note that various European, Spanish and regional guidelines, directives and acts require public authorities and their employees to support gender equality and use non-sexist language.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, see the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/nonsexistlanguage\/\">The UAB Language Service Guide to Non-Sexist Language<\/a> (in<br \/>\nCatalan; examples in English.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/appendix\/appendix-2-guidelines-and-directives-on-the-use-of-non-sexist-language\/\">Appendix 2:\u00a0Guidelines and directives on the use of non-sexist language<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For guidance within this section, please click on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/gender\/third-person-pronouns\/\">Third-person pronouns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/gender\/gender-neutral-titles\/\">Gender-neutral titles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/gender\/use-of-mr-mrs-and-ms\/\">Use of <em>Mr<\/em>,<em> Mrs<\/em> and <em>Ms<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/gender\/gender-and-problematic-words\/\">Gender and problematic words<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/\">Back to Content<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Languages often use two kinds of gender: natural gender, referring to living things of different sexes; and grammatical gender, relating to inanimate objects and concepts which are categorised as feminine, masculine or even neuter. English only uses natural gender, and often makes no distinction between male and female where other languages would (for example, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-562","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/562\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}