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Use of Gender Fair Language New
Use of Gender Fair Language New
SENSITIVE AND
BIAS-FREE
LANGUAGE
1. RACE AND ETHNICITY
WORDS
•Some words demean like
“chick” to refer to a woman
and “cat” to refer to a man.
D. AVOID STEREOTYPING
• Stereotyping means “ an unvarying
form of patterns; a fixed or
conventional notion or conception, a s
of a group, idea etc., held by a number
of people allowing for no individuality”
E. AVOID VERBAL ABUSE
• Sexy woman
C. USE “MAN” CORRECTLY
• 1. man as a verb
• in place of man instead use work, serve, operate staff
and run.
• We are going to man the booth.
We are going to supervise/watch the booth.
2. MAN AS PREFIX