Schuhwerk [12:06 AM]
Hi
everybody! I have a question I didn't find an answer to (I'm sorry, I
hope you didn't get this question frequently, I'm quite sure there is
lot's of discussion).
I'm working at a university in Germany where we
build a social learning environment based on WordPress. The German
language is (sadly) very gendered, so we don't have a gender neutral
word for "author" (yet). We do tricks like "studying people"
(Studierende) to avoid saying "(male) student" (Student). This doesn't
really work for "authors". At our university we have a guideline wich
suggests either using both the female and the male form ("Autorinnen und
Autoren") or the abbreviated form "Autor*innen" or "Autor·innen" if you
try to reach groups of people, both female and male (sorry, only in
German:
https://bit.ly/3fxfExP).
The German government also suggests (in this case for new laws, my
translation): "Draft laws should express the equality between women and
men in language" (source, in German:
https://bit.ly/39RUYz0).
Those solutions are not perfect (as some of them assume a gender
duality (where there is much more), but it is a step in a good direction
(in my feeling :wink:) and it would be really cool, if WordPress could be so forward-looking.
