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Why the Final Word on Gender and Language Is Not Yet Said
4 April 2023
In August 2022, the Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) published a set of language recommendations on gender-sensitive language. In doing so, they were responding to an influx of questions to language advisory services: questions about pronouns, but also about issues that have been around for much lon
Why Dutch-Speakers Have Such a Hard Time with Gender-Neutral Language
3 October 2019
Efforts to make language less male-centred and more inclusive of all genders have received a renewed interest these past few years, not just in the anglophone world but in the Low Countries, too. No gender-neutral alternatives for the words ‘he’ and ‘she’ have been taken up by speakers of Du