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by kgunette 4354 days ago
it's tricky, and agreed - simply an example (by ERE) of how changing language may increase the pool of people interested in the job posting.
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I see that, but the examples were introduced as examples of removing gendered speech. I was expecting the bad examples to be the kind of jobs that are posted to the techcompaniesthatonlyhiremen tumblr, pepperd with 'he', 'him', and 'goto guy' kinds of language.

Given that they weren't, I think that calling them 'gendered', but not explaining the specific connotation of 'gendered' in that context is what caused my confusion.