Most of us use gendered terminology on a regular basis without realizing it. For example, you might walk into a meeting and say, “Hey, guys!” — even if there are people in the meeting whose gender ...

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A person wears a gender neutral pronoun jacket at a 'Rainbow Runway for Equality' to kick off Pride Month at Central World Mall last year in Bangkok, Thailand. Getty Images The terms “male” and ...

More Latinos are becoming aware of the gender-neutral word "Latinx," but still very few approve of using it, according to the Pew Research Center’s bilingual National Survey of Latinos. The term, ...

The State Department defended a memo from Secretary of State Antony Blinken this month that urged staffers to steer clear of gendered language such as "mother" and "manpower." "If you look at that ...

Several Latino legislators in Connecticut who had proposed banning the term "Latinx" in state documents, calling it "offensive" and a "woke term," are proposing the use of another gender-neutral word ...

A group of five parents are sat and each one is holding their little child. Shakespeare’s Juliet famously observed that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Rose itself, on the other hand, ...