Word: genderization
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...unsuited to Miss Hayes. The fiery young Katharina in Taming of the Shrew, for example. And that other Katharine, the French Princess of Henry V, whose English is bad --but whose native French, in this instance, is also bad, Miss Hayes insisting on saying le main, with the wrong gender...
...back end of hacks"), assaulting high fashion ("Their models look as if they had just been blown out of a wind tunnel"), hitting back at the birds ("There ought to be a law that makes pigeon feeding a crime"), or taking a good-natured swipe at the opposite gender ("Man is indeed the weaker sex, worse luck"), Inez Robb interprets the world she roams with an inexhaustible vivacity that can make her competitors' columns read like the telephone book...
...Anyone can learn the language well in 50 hours," he said. "It only has half as many roots as other languages." Another reason for its simplicity, he explained, is that suffixes and prefixes are used to indicate changes in tense and gender...
...came upon these symbols, they found them useful: δ (Mars) was associated with hard iron, φ (Venus) with softer copper. Later, the symbols were adopted by Swedish Naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of modern systematic biology, who found them so aptly descriptive of the male and female gender that they are still used for the same purpose today...
...always ascribing inaccurate gender...