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This article talks about the possibility of English words being used to suppress women in politics, the workplace, and in general. Also writes about how women use a more passive voice when speaking, and how this is seen as a bad thing, but actually could lead to a better environment in a workplace.

Of the 20,000 genes in the human genome, few are more fascinating than FOXP2, a gene that underlies the faculty of human speech. All animals have an FOXP2 gene, but the human version's product differs at just 2 of its 740 units from that of chimpanzees, suggesting that this tiny evolutionary fix may hold the key to why people can speak and chimps cannot.