SEXIST LANGUAGE GENDER- SENSITIVE LANGUAGE

Sexist - A person who discriminates on means GENDER AWARENESS

grounds of sex; someone who practices which is more analytical and critical since it
sexism. clarifies issues about gender disparities and
gender issues.
Sexist language is language that
excludes either men or women when it pertains to one’s effort to show
discussing a topic that is applicable to how gender shapes the role of women and
both sexes. men in society including their role in
development and how it affects relations
This includes using the word man between them.
to refer to humanity, and using titles
Avoid gender biased
like Congressman and fireman.
Another common error that shows
GENDER BIAS GENDER- NEUTRL
gender bias is assuming that the subject
of all sentences is male. For instance, the Policeman Police officer
statement "Each student chose his own
topic for his term paper," leads the reader Representative, legislator,
to assume that all the students in the Congressman congress person
class were male, despite the probability
that half of them were female.
Fireman Fire fighter
Reasons to Avoid Sexist Language Freshman First year student
Sexist language encourages Human beings, people,
discrimination and can discourage people Mankind humanity
from pursuing their dreams. If engineers
are always spoken of as male, a girl who Synthetic, machine made,
aspires to be an engineer may feel that manufactured, artificial
she has no hope, since "all" engineers are Man-made
men.
Sexist language also offends Waiter/waitress Food server, food
people when they find themselves attendant
excluded. This is not an issue that violates
your right to free speech; you are free to
use offensive language, and also free to
decide that you do not agree with the
definition of what constitutes sexist
language. However, if you are using
language that is offensive to half of your
audience, you will not get your message
across. People will not be receptive to
your arguments if they are aggrieved by
your use of exclusively masculine
pronouns.