BERLIN – Most Germans consider themselves in the vanguard of the gender equality movement. Exhibit A: Their female leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been in power for 13 years. Women's rights ...

The University of Cambridge in England is reportedly teaching students in a German class to adopt new gender-neutral versions of plural nouns in a bid to be more inclusive. The university acknowledged ...

The German language is full of male and female nouns. Officials and businesses are tweaking words, including adding asterisks, to make them... Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of ...

If one of those were German, another Turkish or Romanian, for instance, and a third English – or, if there’s enough interest, maybe even Japanese – then we could get away from this antagonism between ...

German is the standard language that is used above all in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. But how did German come to be the standard language? And how has the perception of standard German ...