In German, words like "engineer" are gendered and may be misunderstood to mean that only men are sought. So it's very common in job advertisements to put someth

In German, words like "engineer" are gendered and may be misunderstood to mean that only men are sought. So it's very common in job advertisements to put something like this to signal that males and females (and, implicitly, any other gender or non-gender) are invited to apply.