Chinese and Japanese are both languages that only recently gained gendered third-person pronouns because of Western influences and the gender-neutral pronouns a

Chinese and Japanese are both languages that only recently gained gendered third-person pronouns because of Western influences and the gender-neutral pronouns are still at least somewhat popular. Especially in Chinese; the spoken language (Mandarin) does not have a gendered pronoun; only the written language has an optional gendered pronoun. But really, the main conclusion to draw from this is that the Indo-European language family invented grammatical gender, which made it straightforward to assign gender to words that had no business being gendered (like "actor/actress"). Gendered pronouns are pretty rare outside of Indo-European languages.