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- n a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
- n the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
- Santhi Soundarajan has a message for Caster Semenya, the South African track star whose gender has sparked an international athletics row:.
- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines is one of a handful of female heads of state helping close the gender gap worldwide It's not just about equality anymore.
- The gender gap is biggest in Austria, where just 9% of researchers are female, and Germany, where the figure is 9.