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Is there an industry standard for gender model other than male and female?

I am modeling a database that should be used as generic non-functional requisite for all services of the startup company, like persons, users, services and commercial data like coupons, signature ...
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38 votes
7 answers
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Modeling first and lastname separately

Which arguments should someone consider when designing a new system and has to either store the name of a person as one field or separately as first/last name? Pros for single field: Simpler UI No ...
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