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The principle of male as norm holds that grammatical and lexical devices such as the use of the suffix-ess (as in actress) specifically indicating the female form, the use of man to mean "human", and similar means strengthen the perceptions that the male category is the norm, and that corresponding female categories are derivations and thus less important.
However, when an avatar is human and discernibly gendered, it usually appears to be a man. [30] [31] Depictions of skeletons typically have male anatomy rather than female, even when the character of the skeleton is meant to be female. [32] Restroom symbols show the male as the default person, while the female is identified by a skirt. [33]
"female member of a household" lærningmægden neut. "female pupil" mædencild neut. "female child" mægden neut. "young girl" English maid, maiden; German das Mädchen: mægdenman masc. (of a woman) "virgin" mægþman masc. (of a woman) "virgin" mennenu neut. "handmaiden" næmenwif neut. "married woman" sigewif neut. "victorious woman" siþwif ...
Trump's executive order declares sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female" and states that "gender identity" cannot be included in the definition of ...
Indeed, in most European languages, personal pronouns are gendered; for example English (the personal pronouns he, she and it are used depending on whether the referent is male, female, or inanimate or non-human; this is in spite of the fact that English does not generally have grammatical gender).
For example, the sociological approach to "gender" (social roles: female versus male) focuses on the difference in (economic/power) position between a male CEO (disregarding the fact that he is heterosexual or homosexual) to female workers in his employ (disregarding whether they are straight or gay). However the popular sexual self-conception ...
The word woman can be used generally, to mean any female human, or specifically, to mean an adult female human as contrasted with girl. The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex" in English; [ 19 ] it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child. [ 20 ]
[7] [11] In the 21st century, the noun female is primarily used to describe non-human animals, to refer to biologically female humans in an impersonal technical context (e.g., "Females were more likely than males to develop an autoimmune disease"), or to impartially include a range of people without reference to age (e.g., girls) or social ...