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All-Female Mount Holyoke College Cautions Professors: Don’t Assume Students’ Gender

Emily Zanotti

Mount Holyoke College only accepts women, but professors teaching there have been cautioned not to assume anyone’s gender when speaking to students.

Campus Reform reports that Mount Holyoke professors and administrators, who teach only female students, were recently given an advisory pamphlet suggesting that they refrain from using the word “woman” or “women,” and referencing “the two genders,” in order to keep a gender-neutral classroom environment in the single-gender school.

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