Female, a word that seemingly has been a part of our everyday vernacular since forever, is the latest hot-button topic in the war regarding what you can and cannot say. Earlier this year, Jezebel’s ...

English words referring to or meaning “woman” have interesting histories. In the current political moment, I thought I might share some of them. Each can help us think about ways we may perceive the ...

The results of the analysis—that society’s concept of “person” prioritizes men over women—suggests a “fundamental bias in our species’ collective view of itself,” write the researchers in the paper.