Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender.This is in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social …

Formal Quebec French also has a very different approach to gender-neutral language than Metropolitan French. There is a much greater tendency to generalize feminine markers among nouns referring to professions. This is done in order to avoid having to refer to a woman with a masculine noun, ...

Swedish (svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ()) is a North Germanic language spoken natively by at least 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish with the exception of Åland which is unilingually Swedish. It has more speakers than any other North Germanic language and is the fourth-most spoken Germanic language overall.

One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes appears with first- or second-person reference. It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun.It is more or less equivalent to the Scots "a body", the French pronoun on, the German/Scandinavian …

Gender neutral language in Spanish is more difficult than gender neutral language (also called gender inclusive language) in some other languages, because its grammatical gender is pervasive, and it has no true neutral grammatical gender, at least not in standard usage. See the main article on gender neutral language for general reasons to use neutral language, common …

Examples. The suffix-man had the meanings "person" and "adult male" in Old English (see man), but, even when used as a gender-neutral term to include women, it was understood to still mainly refer to males. Around the 20th century, the gender-neutral use of man and -man declined. Thus job titles that include this suffix, such as fireman, salesman and alderman, generally imply that …

Inclusive language avoids expressions that are considered to express or imply ideas that are sexist, racist, or otherwise biased, prejudiced, or denigrating to any particular group of people (and sometimes animals as well). Use of inclusive language aims to avoid offense and fulfill the ideals of egalitarianism; often the term "political correctness" is used to refer to this practice, either ...

Jan 09, 2014 · I chose “Gender-neutral Language” as the title for this web page. ... Wikipedia has a decent overview of “gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender,” if you are curious, but they mainly focus on the formation of nouns (e.g. docteur vs doctoresse in French). Languages in which all nouns include grammatical gender face a ...

Jan is a form of John that is used in various languages. (See the “Other names” section in this page’s infobox for more variants.) The name is used in Afrikaans, Belarusian, Circassian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Devon dialect, Dutch, German, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Scandinavian and Finnic languages.

Gender mainstreaming can allow those in power who are not genuinely interested in the women's movement to adopt the language of women's rights, a reflection of power politics that becomes more of a tool used to legitimize the actions of governments. Gender mainstreaming then becomes more about advising governments than advancing gender equality.