Reading some older books recently and have found it intensely off-putting that gender references are unambiguously male Resisting an urge to dismiss surrounding content as equally outdated/irrelevant, I worry this unfairly biases me to modern literature Anyone else notice this?
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@shelikavoid as someone who reads everything, does this bother you? Recent books include Childhood's End (1953) and How to win friends and influence people (1936)1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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It does indeed. If the research or findings I'm reading about are on the public domain I do try to peek at them and see if they at least make sense or of they are the result of acceptable practice at the time (which may not make sense today). So for example I tend to not trust
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data from studies in older books if they were based on data from polls in the workplace because at the time (and especially as studies in the US), there was a much larger male workforce. Not all are like that though and some authors either point that out or have solid methods.
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On that note, I'm honestly happy that nowadays there are plenty of authors that experiment with the use of he/she/they on a chapter basis or use terms interchangeably. If I remember correctly, "The Manager's path" by Camille Fournier does so brilliantly.
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