Gendergap

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German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English gender gap.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒɛndɐɡæp/
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Noun

Examples (typography)
  • Arbeiter_innen

Gendergap m or n (strong, genitive Gendergaps, plural Gendergaps)

  1. (sociology) gender gap (difference between the pay, status, etc. of men and women)
    • 2021 June 1, Jens Uthoff, “Bedeutung der Clubkultur: München ist die Clubhauptstadt”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:
      Zudem gibt es ein Gendergap: Über 80 Prozent der Club­be­trei­be­r:in­nen sind männlich, bei den Jazzclubs sogar über 90 Prozent.
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  2. (typography) underscore (_) inserted to mark a word as gender-neutral, sometimes spoken as a glottal stop
    Coordinate term: Gendersternchen
    • 2014 May 6, Svenja Bednarczyk, “re:publica 2014, der 1. Tag: Verfuckingnetzt euch!”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:
      Egal, ob es um das N-Wort oder den Unterstrich, das sogenannte Gendergap, geht: Egal welche Bedeutung für das Wort vom Urheber vorgesehen war, nicht-diskriminierend, nicht-sexistisch, es gilt, was der Rest der Sprachgesellschaft darunter versteht.
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Declension

Declension of Gendergap
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der, das Gendergap die Gendergaps
genitive eines des Gendergaps der Gendergaps
dative einem dem Gendergap den Gendergaps
accusative einen, ein den, das Gendergap die Gendergaps

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