Replace female/male with woman/man where it appears on the interface

[andylolz]

Suggestion from @emmajane: https://twitter.com/emmajanehw/status/641563916355653632

I wonder if this should also be changed in code? (Possibly not in the database, though.)

[tmtmtmtm]

Let's just change it on the site first, as that should be much quicker/safer than code-level changes.

Is this just on the buttons, or is there anything beyond that?

[andylolz]

much quicker/safer than code-level changes

Kk cool.

Is this just on the buttons, or is there anything beyond that?

It’s other places too e.g.

[emmajane]

Doing a quick grep through the repo it looks like there are only a few places male/female are used:

• views/home_anonymous.erb:11: <p>From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, there are over 180 parliaments in the world — but what percentage of their members are&nbsp;female?</p>
• views/onboarding.erb:32: <p class="person-card--advice__hint">(Press “Female”)</p>
• views/term.erb:80: Female
• views/onboarding.erb:162: Male
• views/term.erb:76: Male

I haven't looked at assets (PNGs/GIFs/JPGs).

[emmajane]

Obviously changing all of the underlying code / variables / function names is an invisible change that you might choose to make. The long term advantage is that you might attract (or rather: not deter) a wider range of developers who are interested in the code base. HOWEVER, I think it's fine to split off that task as a "low hanging fruit" / "new contributor" task, and it does not need to be part of the updates made to the visible interface.

[andylolz]

Sounds good to me. I’ve (clumsily) reworded this ticket accordingly.

[laurakalbag]

Hats off for this effort. <3

[andylolz]

Sorted. Thanks all!