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Is the author female?

Well, using "she" is wrong even for "positive gender discrimination". If so, you should go for "he or she" or "they". The point is, I've seen a paper or two in business & social sciences (both ENG...

Is it a recently published paper? Maybe they were trying to "positively discriminate" male dominance?
I can imagine some of the recent papers being like this. (No such thing in Russian - слава Богу...