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Of "ils" and "elles", which pronoun is, grammatically speaking, used to refer to a group with an overwhelming female majority?

Hypothetically, when referring to a group of, say 20 women and 1 man, is ils still grammatical, or at some point the ratio is so skewed toward females that elles becomes grammatical? This isn't even ...
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