A gender-neutral pronoun makes waves in Sweden

"There's almost nothing left to do in the field of gender equality, so people are suggesting increasingly strange ideas"

(AFP) Sweden's tradition of gender equality has famously put more mums in the workplace while rising numbers of dads stay at home. Now advocates have a new frontier: they're pushing for a gender-neutral pronoun, "hen", to be added to "han" (he) and "hon" (she). "There's almost nothing left to do in the field of gender equality, so people are suggesting increasingly strange ideas," said independent journalist Elise Claesson, partly amused and partly irritated by the debate. Read more:

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