It's also worth bearing in mind not everyone is a native English speaker. In languages that have gendered words, a lot of languages use the masculine subject fo

It's also worth bearing in mind not everyone is a native English speaker. In languages that have gendered words, a lot of languages use the masculine subject forms by default, for example when referring to a mixed or unknown gendered group. In French for example: il - he or it in the impersonal form (e.g. it is nice outside today) elle - she ils - they, referring to a group of men or a mixed or unknown group elles - they, referring to a group of women Some languages, such as Swedish, are trying to introduce gender neutral forms to work around the issue: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/04/hen-swedens-new-gender-neutral-pronoun-causes-controversy.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/04/hen-swedens-new-gen...