Sweden’s New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Hen

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4. one does have to hand it to them, though

for being so seeming open to all these ideas.

Imagine them even being discussed in North American media without being ridiculed from the outset -- let alone tried on, as the magazine there did.

There is an argument to be made, it seems, that enforcing diversity in some of the ways described does maybe amount to limiting diversity in other ways ...

Carrots can take an awfully long time to change a society. Canada too has non-gendered unemployment-insurance parental leave for the birth/adoption of children: 15 weeks reserved purely as maternity leave (to recognize women's and babies' needs during late pregnancy, delivery and early infancy), and 35 weeks during the first year after birth that parents can divide between them as they choose (including simultaneously). It isn't hard to guess how most parents take that leave, where both are employed. And not just because men usually earn more than women so the sacrifice would be greater if he took the time out. Just offering the option isn't enough to bring about real social change.