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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by DanBC on Saturday March 19, 2016 @02:40PM (#11319799)

EDIT: The text you quote does not say that man / woman and male / female have different uses. There's nothing to say that male / female only refer to sex not gender.

If what you said is true (and it isn't) people would only need two questions on forms:

"Are you male or female?"

"Are you a man or a woman?"

This would make no sense and so we can safely ignore it.

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Re:Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and hone... by lowboy on Saturday March 19, 2016 @03:27PM (#11320036)

Yes, people do still conflate sex and gender terms. But language is increasingly shifting toward using male/female to describe sex and man/woman to describe gender because it results in greater clarity.

Sex and gender are separate concepts, and having separate terms for each is a net positive for the English language IMO.

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