Definitions
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- adjective Having the quality of ignoring
gender , usually refering toorganizations (such asuniversities ) that accept and/or house people together withoutdiscriminating on the basis ofgender .
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Examples
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But, no wo(man) is an island, and having recently lived in the UK and NZ, I have to say that many areas of public life (work, social activities, etc.) seem to have become much more macho again - reflecting the tenor and some of the gender-blind policies of the political parties in power.
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It's just so strange: the popularity of cinema exploded in some part due to screwball comedies, which were gender-blind in their joke distribution.
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It's just so strange: the popularity of cinema exploded in some part due to screwball comedies, which were gender-blind in their joke distribution.
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Nonprofits experiment with new ways to delivery clean water, finance affordable clean tech, build gender-blind schools, support nascent civil societies, and on and on.
Jonathan Lewis: New Citizen Center Powers Up Jonathan Lewis 2011
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This was correlated with two significant changes: the opening of co-ed dorms, so that the open slots in the women's dormitory didn't limit women's enrollment, and a switch to gender-blind admissions.
Social Beavers and Normal Women Peggy 2009
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I felt like I needed to include a note, lest she think I was color- or gender-blind.
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Would You Send A Pink Toy To A Baby Boy? Rachel Kramer Bussel 2011
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The World Bank's gender-blind agriculture investments are even more appalling when they are offered in the form of loans, which increase poor countries' debt burden and often compel governments to slash public spending on health and other social services to service debt.
World Bank must put its money behind the rhetoric on gender equality | Elizabeth Arend 2011
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It will drop demands that poor countries adhere to destructive, gender-blind policy agendas that undermine rural agriculture, health and education.
World Bank must put its money behind the rhetoric on gender equality | Elizabeth Arend 2011
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I felt like I needed to include a note, lest she think I was color- or gender-blind.
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Would You Send A Pink Toy To A Baby Boy? Rachel Kramer Bussel 2011
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Nonprofits experiment with new ways to delivery clean water, finance affordable clean tech, build gender-blind schools, support nascent civil societies, and on and on.
Jonathan Lewis: New Citizen Center Powers Up Jonathan Lewis 2011
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