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Meaning of postgender | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
    not-comparable, usually
  2. Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
    not-comparable, usually

Examples

“Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, […]”
“Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.”
“Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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