ジェンダー

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1

Gender: the social and cultural roles, behaviors, and attributes associated with being male or female, often contrasted with biological sex.

Noun

Examples

ジェンダー平等について学校で学んだ。

I learned about gender equality at school.

職場でのジェンダーに関する意識が変わってきた。

Awareness of gender issues in the workplace has been changing.

ジェンダーの問題は政策でも重要なテーマになっている。

Gender issues have become an important policy topic.

2

In grammar, 'gender' can refer to the grammatical category (e.g., masculine/feminine) assigned to nouns in some languages.

NounGrammar

Examples

フランス語やドイツ語では名詞にジェンダーがある。

In French and German, nouns have grammatical gender.

文法の授業で名詞のジェンダーを覚えるのは大変だ。

It's hard to memorize the grammatical gender of nouns in grammar class.

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