"Starting words problems with "Bob makes $50,000 a year" or "Alice needs 10 onions from the store" helps frame men as workers and women as home-makers." This i

"Starting words problems with "Bob makes $50,000 a year" or "Alice needs 10 onions from the store" helps frame men as workers and women as home-makers." This is one of those statements where part of your brain goes "well, I guess there might be atom-sized kernel of truth to this". But in reality, I doubt anyone is tangibly affected by the congruent use of Male/Female names in word problems that map to traditional Male/Female gender roles. I believe this is a result of a hypersensitive social-justice filter which results in an astonishingly large false-positive rate. Quite frankly, I just fail to see how gendered language in word problems not only 1) reflects math being inherently cultured and identity-based, 2) harmfully reinforces malicious stereotypes (people can just as easily write Alice makes $50,000 a year, Bob needs 10 onions from the store), and 3) are odious enough to justify a substantial, near fundamental, change in math education.