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Removing gender pronouns from Quip
Oriana Kachaochana
November 15, 2019
Quip

Removing gender pronouns from Quip

Below is an article originally written by Tag Savage at PowerToFly Partner Quip, and published on May 31, 2018. Go to Quip's page on PowerToFly to see their open positions and learn more.

In our spring feature roundup post, we noted that we'd removed all references to gender throughout our product. To quote that post: "We briefly considered a simple switch from gendered to gender-neutral pronouns, which would have worked fine for people who are using Quip in languages that have gender-neutral pronouns, but we wanted to be inclusive for all users. After analyzing the problem from an internationalization perspective, we decided that removing personal pronouns entirely was the best solution." In this post, we'll expand a little more about why and how we did this.

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