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Sexism in Language

Sexist language is language that expresses bias in favor of one sex and thus treats the other sex in a discriminatory manner. In most cases, the bias is in favor of men and against women. This paper firstly discusses sexist language from two typical aspects: sexism in words and sexism in proverbs. Then it emphasizes that owing to Women’s Liberation Movement in Western Countries, women’s social ...

Grammatical Sexism in Spanish

2 Such as Casey Miller and Kate Swift, The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing for Writers, Editors and Speakers (New York: Lippincott, 1980). A bibliography of other such guides is provided by Francine Frank and Frank Anshen. Language and the Sexes (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), pp. 115–19. A computer program, Grammatik, will scan text files and point out sexist terms, sometimes...

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Ageism and Sexism in the Workplace

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The Second Sexism

ID societies in which sex discrimination has been recognized to be wrong, the assault on this form of discrimination has targeted those attitudes and practices that (directly) disadvantage women and girls. At the most, there has been only scant attention to those manifestations of sex discrimination of which the primary victims are men and boys. What little recogiiition there has been of discri...