No, not for all nouns. But if the noun refers to a person, there are usually two different nouns for each gender and the male form is often used to include fema

No, not for all nouns. But if the noun refers to a person, there are usually two different nouns for each gender and the male form is often used to include females. There are modern attempts to fix this by introducing a new noun (ending) that includes both male and female (or more) genders.