gender
/ˈdʒɛndər/
noun
- The state of being male or female, especially as it relates to social and cultural differences, not just biology.
- Many people now recognize more than two genders.
- She studies how gender affects career choices.
- The school has a policy of equality regardless of gender.
- The grammatical classification of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives as masculine, feminine, or neuter in some languages.
- Learning the gender of German words can be tricky.
- The pronoun 'it' is used for neuter gender in English.
- In French, every noun has a gender: masculine or feminine.
verb
- To assign or perceive a gender to someone or something.
- We should not gender jobs or activities.
- People often gender babies based on the color of their clothes.
- The toy industry tends to gender products as for boys or girls.