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[Kristina Hoeppner <1684333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Currently, we ask for the gender in the resume and have the options
- Female
- Male
- Not specified

That is not very inclusive and brings up more questions than it
resolves. The biggest question is: Do we need to have this question at
all? Could we just remove it? We don't need it for registration purposes
and if anybody does want to include it in their resume, they could do it
as regular text field.

Since removing things can impact the data that is currently stored in a
Mahara instance, I think we can't just remove it and then leave people
without and drop the data as they might have used it in their
portfolios.

So until we make a decision on how best to proceed, we can already take
a small step of making the language more inclusive and use the following
options:

- (Not specified)
- Woman
- Man
- Prefer not to disclose

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: mahara/17.04
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: mahara/17.10
     Importance: Medium
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: mahara/17.04
   Importance: Medium
       Status: In Progress

** Also affects: mahara/17.10
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: mahara/17.04
       Status: In Progress => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara/17.10
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: mahara/17.10
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: mahara/17.10
    Milestone: None => 17.10.0

** Changed in: mahara/17.04
    Milestone: None => 17.04.0

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1684333

Title:
  Change the "Gender" question to a more inclusive one

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 17.04 series:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 17.10 series:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently, we ask for the gender in the resume and have the options
  - Female
  - Male
  - Not specified

  That is not very inclusive and brings up more questions than it
  resolves. The biggest question is: Do we need to have this question at
  all? Could we just remove it? We don't need it for registration
  purposes and if anybody does want to include it in their resume, they
  could do it as regular text field.

  Since removing things can impact the data that is currently stored in
  a Mahara instance, I think we can't just remove it and then leave
  people without and drop the data as they might have used it in their
  portfolios.

  So until we make a decision on how best to proceed, we can already
  take a small step of making the language more inclusive and use the
  following options:

  - (Not specified)
  - Woman
  - Man
  - Prefer not to disclose

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