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m/f? are you actually allowed to make this distinction in Germany?

• to3m 9y ago
  German has grammatical gender: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/225052/what-does-h-f-m-f-and-m-w-abbreviation-in-job-titles-mean https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/225052/what-does...
  • matheist 9y ago
    To add to the answer here, the "-er" suffix in German indicates masculine gender, so it might be a combination of legal requirement in Germany (to add m/f to job posts) in addition to the word "Developer" sounding masculine to a German speaker even though the English word has no explicit masculine connotation. (pairs like waiter/waitress, actor/actress, are exceptions in English rather than the norm)
    • keithnz 9y ago
      oh, thanks for that. That's quite interesting.
• tom_mellior 9y ago
  That's the common way of expressing "everyone" (due to grammar, see matheist's explanation). It's not meant to mean "gender-binary", although I see how you could read it that way.