The modern language we use to describe gender and identity can sometimes elude even those who have spoken English their entire lives. Language is constantly evolving, and using the wrong term in some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kim Elsesser covers issues that impact women in the workplace. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that federal ...

Women, non-native English speakers and those from lower-income countries published fewer English-language peer-reviewed papers than men, native English speakers and those from higher-income countries, ...

In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field. By Trip Gabriel Robin Lakoff, a linguist who analyzed what she considered the unique ...

I am in the middle of writing a book on pronouns in English. My focus this time out is on standard English rather than nonstandard English, since one of my recent books was about Black English.

An English professor and her supervisor at Texas A & M University were both fired as a result of a student surreptitiously ...