Gender Check
A Google Doc add-on created for educators.
Gender Check is a 'Google Doc add-on', which adds functionality to Google Docs.
To use Gender Check, you need a Google account with access to Google Drive.
What Gender Check does:
I made Gender Check so I could easily reuse the same student communications for multiple students where gender changes are required. (It can spot a single gender mistake in a long list of student report comments in a few seconds!) While grammar checkers may underline some of these, Gender Check highlights the whole paragraph bright yellow if it detects a gender error.
But it doesn't stop there!
With a single click Gender Check will accurately change the text gender.
In summary, Gender Check:
Detects common gender words in text.
Highlights paragraphs that contain mixed genders.
Changes the text gender to be uniformly male, female or he/she.
Have fun!
(Bruce Vaughan)
Gender Check is smart!
The diagram below shows how changing genders of simple pronouns between male and female is not at all simple.
It all depends on context, so there is a lot of fancy logic in Gender Check to make it reliable!
Gender Check is versatile!
The following tables list the gender words that Gender Check will recognise and convert from.
The current version of Gender Check will only convert to male, female or he/she genders.
Gender pronouns detected:
Other gender words detected:
Understanding the 'gender detection options'
The three settings of gender detection options (shown below) change the behavour of gender word scanning and conversions in Gender Check:
Option 1: Only male and female
Use this option if the text you are scanning or converting from has only male or female gender words.
This is the faster because there is less scanning required.
Option 2: All except 'they', 'them' etc
Use this option if the text you are scanning or converting from text contains neutral gender words, but you want to avoid 'they', 'them', 'their' etc. being recognised as gender words.
Option 3: All gender types
Use this option if the text you are scanning or converting from text containing neutral gender words, and you want 'they', 'them', 'their' etc. to be recognised as gender words as well.
Buy me a coffee and its yours!
One-off purchase...
A tiny, insignificant, once-only outlay is all it takes to enjoy Gender Check after the free trial. (Buy a license here.)
To unlock Gender Check, go to the Google Doc Extensions menu, select 'Gender Check', then 'Enter license key'. (See diagram below)
Then copy/paste the license key from your purchase email.
My Commitment...
Because I am asking for some small contribution from my users, I will do my best to improve, debug and upgrade this software to keep it useful and relevant.
IMPORTANT:
After using Gender Check to change text, always proofread. This is an automated system that cannot be100% perfect.
If Gender Check inserts incorrect pronouns, the 'Spelling and grammar check' function in Google Docs will enable you to locate these and correct them with a single click.
Do not perform multiple conversions on the same text. Rather, use the 'undo' function in Google Docs to return the text to its original state. Then perform an alternate conversion.