[lg policy] The Push to Make French Gender-Neutral

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic


The Push to Make French Gender-Neutral


“My homeland is the French language,” author Albert Camus once wrote—and many French people would agree. That’s why any attempt at changing the language is often met with suspicion. So the uproar was almost instantaneous when, this fall, the first-ever school textbook promoting a gender-neutral version of French was released.


Full story:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/inclusive-writing-france-feminism/545048/?google_editors_picks=true

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