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Watch Your Mouth

Hidden Brain

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Are You a Boy or a Girl?

Children who speak certain languages are quicker to identify gender and their own gender than children who are learning other languages in other cultures. Studies suggest that differences across languages do in fact predict some of these measures of gender equality across countries. Languages seem to have different ways of communicating agency.

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