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    Masculine, feminist or neutral? The language battle that has split Spain

    A new government plans to erase gender bias in the constitution
    by Stephen Burgen in Barcelona Jan 19, 2020 3 minutes
    Student protesters march in Barcelona last March on International Women’s Day. Photograph: Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty Images

    A showdown is looming between Spain’s conservative language academy and its newly elected socialist government over proposals to rewrite the nation’s constitution using gender-neutral language.

    The , which has the final word on the correct use of Spanish, has been sitting on a report commissioned over a year ago by Carmen Calvo, the deputy prime minister, that calls for the wording of the 1978 constitution to be altered, replacing generic masculine nouns

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