... One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist ... children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." It was further found that this was not wholly due to the use of the masculine pronoun as a generic: "...

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