Gender

Fair
Language
DR. MARY GRACE C. DELA MASA
SHS Assistant Principal II
Angela Valdez Ramos NHS
 True or False

Women are expected to take

care of family or domestic
duties and remain close to home
 True or False

All men are expected to work

and earn money
for the family
 True or False

Boys are better in mathematics

than girls .
 True or False

Boys never cry

 True or False

Girls are very emotional

 True or False

Women usually do more

housework than men
 True or False

Women talk too much.

 True or False

Men are better singers than

women.
 True or False

Men are easily attracted to

beautiful women.
 Husband &
Wife
A man said to his wife one day,
"I don't know how you can be so
stupid and so beautiful all at the
same time.
The wife responded, "Allow me
to explain. God made me beautiful
so you would be attracted to me;
God made me stupid so I would be
attracted to you!
 Ang Mag-asawa
“Asawa ko, Minahal kita dahil
maganda ka kahit na may topak
ka”.

Ang sagot ng babae, “Asawa

ko, ginawa ako ng Diyos na
maganda para mabighani ka. At
ginawa niya akong may topak
para magustuhan kita”.
 Gender-fair language (GFL)
It aims at reducing gender stereotyping and
discrimination.
Two principle strategies have been employed
to make languages gender-fair and to treat
women and men symmetrically:
neutralization and feminization.
 Gender-neutral language
Gender-neutral language (gender-
generic, gender- inclusive, non-sexist, or
sex-neutral language) is language that
attempts to refer neither to males nor
females when discussing an abstract or
hypothetical person whose sex cannot
otherwise be determined.
 Neutralization
it is achieved, for example, by
replacing male-masculine forms
(policeman) with gender-unmarked
forms (police officer)
 Language matters
Gender sensitivity often gets
expressed through people's language
choice.
We can choose more inclusive
language and use words that are
gender neutral.
 GAD Vocabularies

Gender identity
an individual’s feeling
about, relationship
with, and understanding
of gender as it pertains
to their sense of self.
 GAD Vocabularies
Gender expression
external presentation of one’s gender identity, often
through behavior, clothing, haircut, or voice, which
may or may not conform to socially defined
behaviors and characteristics typically associated
with being either masculine or feminine.
 GAD Vocabularies
Gender binary
a conceptual framework
that defines gender
as consisting solely of two
Categories termed “woman
and “man” that are biologically
based (“female” & male).
 GAD Vocabularies
Cisgender
relating to a person
whose gender identity
corresponds with the
sex they were assigned
at birth.
 GAD Vocabularies

Transgender
relating to a person whose
gender identify differs from
the sex they were assigned
at birth or to someone whose
gender identity is nonbinary.
 GAD Vocabularies
Nonbinary
relating to a person who
does not identify, or
identify solely, as either
a woman or a man
 Gender-neutral language
Gender-neutral language (gender-
generic, gender- inclusive, non-sexist, or
sex-neutral language) is language that
attempts to refer neither to males nor
females when discussing an abstract or
hypothetical person whose sex cannot
otherwise be determined.
 Examples
Mankind- humanity, people, human beings
Man's achievements – Human achievements
Man-made – synthetic, manufactured, machine-
made
The common man-the average person, ordinary people
 Occupations
Businessman - business executive
Fireman - firefighter
Mailman - mail carrier
Steward & stewardess - flight attendant
Policeman/woman - police officer
Congressman/woman– representative
 Pronouns
 encourage students to use the
 gender-neutral singular pronouns
  they, them, their, and theirs,
 rather than using binary alternatives such
as he/she, he or she, or (s)he.
 Recast into the plural.

Give each student his paper as soon as he is finished.

Give students their papers as soon as they are finished.
 Reword to eliminate gender problems

The average student is worried about his grade.

The average student is worried about grades.

 Reword to eliminate gender problems
Original: The driver should take his completed
registration form to the clerk’s window and pay
his license fee.
Gender-fair: You should take your completed
registration form to the clerk’s window and pay
your license fee.
 Reword to eliminate gender problems
Original: After filling out his class schedule, the
student should place it in the registrar’s
basket.
Gender-fair: After filling out a class schedule, the
student should place it in the registrar’s
basket.
 Reword to eliminate gender problems
Original: The effect of PCBs has been studied
extensively in rats and man.
Gender-fair: The effect of PCBs has been studied
extensively in rats and humans.
Think of gender-marked words for
occupational terms
Work it out!
Anchorman

Businessman

Cameraman

Chairman
Current Usage Alternatives
Anchorman anchor, anchorperson
Businessman business executive,
manager, business owner
Cameraman camera operators, photographers
Chairman chairperson,chair,coordinator,
moderator, presiding officer, head
Work it out!
Actress
Authoress
Aviatrix
Comedienne
Executrixes
Heroines
Hostesses
Poetess
Proprietress
Suffragette
Usherette
Current Usage Alternatives

Actress actor
Authoress author
Aviatrix aviator
Comedienne comedian
Executrixes executor
Heroines heroes
Hostesses hosts
Poetess poet
Proprietress proprietor
Suffragette suffragist
Usherette usher
 As Teachers and GAD Advocates

Seize and create classroom

opportunities to discuss and
challenge gender assumptions,
particularly binary assumptions
about gender.
 As Teachers and GAD Advocates

Avoid assuming binary gender

identities by designing
activities that divide the class
into boys and girls.
 As Teachers and GAD Advocates

Avoid assuming binary

gender identities when
assigning readers or roles for
texts being read aloud or
performed.
 As Teachers and GAD Advocates
When facilitating discussions of the
impact of gender identity on personal,
social, or political experience, move beyond
binary terms that compare and contrast the
experiences of women and men to ensure
that such explorations consider
experiences of those with nonbinary
identities as well.
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 Our language and
society reflect one
another, so it is important
for us as communicators
to
recognize and respect
change in the meaning
and acceptability of
words.
 Concern about the use
of sexist language is part
of our increased awareness
that the perceived
meanings of some
words have changed in
response to the changing
roles of men and women in
our society.
“Let us be fair to everyone. Let us
treat people the way you want to be
treated. Talk to people they way you
want to be talked to. Respect is