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Re: adding gender field on debian developer's database (from debian-devel)



On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 22:12 +0200, fabienne s wrote:

> so i'm interested in what you think here on the list about including 
> someone's gender (i *think* that's what he meant by "sex" below) in the 
> debian developer's database? 

No, he meant sex :-) In English (at least in British English) gender is
a grammatical concept, whereas sex is a biological concept (similarly,
social or cultural differences are gender-related with sex being used to
refer to biological differences).

Cheers,

Adam



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