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I usually alternate between male and female forms. That is, after each male (pro)noun, there comes a female (unless I'm referring back to previous person).
I also have to say that I see female forms quite often in Perl books (though it's a sign that there's stille a lot of gender mainstreaming to do, as I'm surprised and delighted every time I see it). So there is some awareness.
Oh, and the situation is even worse in German, where we have to jump through a lot of hoops to write gender-neutral text. E.g.:
Re:alternate (Score:1)
It's gerund [wikipedia.org] in English. You can't use one to get around a pronoun's gender, though, or at least I think it'd be very awkward.
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There where gerundiums and gerunds in Latin, but German ditched the gerunds. It seems that English ditches gerundiums.
Anyway, discerning between gerundiums and gerunds was a constant source of pain for me (and others) in our latin classes...