Gender-neutral pronouns
Subject in Social Sciences
Gender-neutral pronouns has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Lera BoroditskyCognitive scientist and professor at the University of California, San Diego
Boroditsky reports that Finnish-learning children take about an extra year to classify themselves by gender compared with Hebrew learners.
“Finnish kids take about a year, an extra year before they can reliably classify themselves with boys or girls”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 28:53
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
The shocking power of tiny thingsTED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.