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NBA and WNBA back Lean In Girls program guidance on language
Original: NBA and WNBA back Lean In Girls program that tells facilitators not to call participants 'girls'
The NBA and WNBA are supporting the Lean In Girls leadership program, which instructs facilitators to avoid calling participants 'girls', instead using terms like 'young people' or 'leaders'. The partnership has drawn attention and criticism, with commentators debating the language guidance and the leagues' involvement in the gender-equity initiative aimed at middle-school girls.
Why now: The leagues' endorsement of advice to avoid the word 'girls' in a girls' program is being debated as an example of heated culture-war arguments over gendered language.
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- NBA and WNBA back Lean In Girls program that tells facilitators not to call participants 'girls' · Fox News
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