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Created by Guest
Created on Nov 16, 2021

Change 'male/female' options to 'man/woman/non-binary' in the Gender field

"Male" and "female" describe sex, not gender. A field for Gender should reflect actual gender descriptors, such as "man", "woman", or "non-binary".
Alternatively, if a business needs to know the biological sex of an employee for some reason, then the field should be labeled appropriately as Sex.

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  • Guest
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    Jun 15, 2022

    Sorry, meant to say "is not a required field"

  • Guest
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    Jun 15, 2022

    Respectfully, Paul, I think this issue is less about business outcomes and more about inclusivity and doing the right thing. Even though this is a required field, by providing only two options as male or female, it reinforces the notion that gender is binary and may reinforce feelings of exclusion and lack of representation.

  • Guest
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    Jun 15, 2022

    Hello Admins!

    The field in question is not one that is required on profile creation, and we've provided a custom field builder that can be by used by clients to add fields that have client-created custom options in a drop down, or simply text fields that will take any entry.

    All custom fields can be used equally to the built-in fields for filtering the user's report and in availability/enrollment rule builders to ensure learning related business outcomes are supported.