0 relating to people and not especially to men or to women:
gender-neutral words such as "person"
1 relating neither especially to men nor to women:
In fact, the policy documents on the family emanating from the government are mostly carefully worded in gender-neutral terms, referring to parents throughout.
Again a pictorial survey was conducted where the boys were asked to ascribe a male or female name to a gender-neutral stick figure.
Formal equality therefore conceptualises equality as a matter of gender-neutral treatment.
Although gender-neutral in principle, the provision of virtually unrestricted testamentary powers can be used to disinherit potential female heirs.
As the 18th century became the 19th, gender-neutral language was not yet in vogue.
The unsuffixed or previously male form is being adopted, with a gender-neutral meaning.
Similarly, compounds like landlord/landlady are being reanalyzed as monomorphemic, with landlord being used as the gender-neutral form.
Is the focus of policy to be gender-neutral, or is it to reinforce traditional gender roles?
