Gender-specific

"Gender-specific" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The lack of gender-specific words for "cousin" in English is an example of a lexical gap.

It says the Rule Book term 'pilotman' "has recently been raised as an issue as it is gender-specific", and that it is "developing a proposal to replace it using gender neutral language".

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