http://www.blogigo.com/easyenglishtips en venkatchary venkatchary Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:31:00 +0100 daily 1 Word choices and grammatical constructions that ignore or minimize the presence and contributions of one sex in society—at home or school or the workplace, in business or professional spheres, in social or personal relationships—may be considered sexist. Many writers and speakers try to avoid such usages, and they reject as well language that calls attention to the sex of an individual when it is irrelevant to the role or situation under discussion. Here are specific suggestions for avoiding sexist language, from replacing one term with another to recasting sentences. Replacing man or men , or words or expressions containing either, when they are clearly intended to refer to a person of either sex or to include members of both sexes. Instead of Consider using man human being, human, person, individual mankind, man (collectively) human beings, humans, humankind,... Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:31:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.com/easyenglishtips/Avoiding-gender-Language/1/ http://www.blogigo.com/easyenglishtips/Avoiding-gender-Language/1/