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Are you sure your software is gender-neutral?

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      Interactions  Volume 21, Issue 1
      January - February 2014
      73 pages
      ISSN:1072-5520
      EISSN:1558-3449
      DOI:10.1145/2540069
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      • Ron Wakkary,
      • Erik Stolterman
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