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The linguistic debates about the creation of humans, which shaped whether the word ‘mankind’ was understood to include women, emerged from the two very different creation accounts in the Book of Genesis. (Unsplash)

When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries

Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.

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