Gender-fair/gender- neutral/non-discriminatory/non-sexist

expressions

Smart, conscious, and professionalized writers or speakers use inclusive, gender-

neutral expressions that bring their ethos to the audience and others. Conversely,
authoritarian, complicated writers tend to use discriminatory, exclusive language that
creates resentment to a democratic audience.
Use of discriminatory language is the outcome of a movement initiated in 1966 by
National Organization for Women (NOW) that used to protest against the use of
masculine words to mean women.

Discriminatory Gender-fair

Actress actor
Brotherhood fraternity
Businessman businessperson
Cameraman cameraperson
Countrymen compatriots
Fireman firefighters
Freshman freshers
Layman layperson
Man-hour work hour
Mankind humankind
Man-made human-made
Man/woman person
Manpower workforce
Men/persons humans
Man of letters pundit
Middlemen intermediaries
Poetess poet
Pressman pressperson
Watchman guard
Wife/husband spouse
Workmen employees

A modern stylist writer uses gender-neutral words or expressions to retain his or her
credibility as a genuine, impersonal, non-discriminator communicator. We should
remember, excessive or false use of adjectives makes a passage verbose and therefore
unreadable.
Everyone, everybody or someone is singular number. It is an old practice to use ‘he’ or
‘his’ as its pronoun. For example,
Someone has left his/her bag
This is a gender-discriminatory sentence. Today every major language is turning to be
gender-fair. The modern way of writing the sentence is
Someone has left their bag
Some people write ‘s/he’ or ‘his or her’ to avoid this problem but it seems weird to write
like this frequently. Consider this sentence: A baby cries when he or she is tired. To
avoid such problems you can say
Babies cry when they are tired

 Check Oxford Dictionary for more detail [find the entry ‘gender’ page no 644, 8th
edition.