Word: genderization
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...even in academic writing, gender-oriented linguistic reforms are beginning to appear more frequently. Asay and McDonald say that they now use "she" as an indefinite pronoun in their papers...
Advocates of the "gender-inclusive" trend say it is not confined to feminists and their supporters, although they acknowledge that they are a small minority. Most people aren't bothered by the change, Asay says, but a few are threatened...
This forces us to question not only formal barriers such as apartheid, but the more subtle barriers of class, culture, gender, manners and privilege that serve as gatekeepers in societies like our own that have forsworn legal discrimination...
...important place to put our efforts in this community is in affirming that no individual or group has a rightful dominance here and in understanding and respecting our differences--in gender, race, ethnicity and socio-economic class characteristics. Perhaps the most frequent encounters across such difference are those between men and women. And in these encounters inappropriate assertion of dominance is manifest in many ways, often unconsciously...
From this change will flow other valuable improvements in living, learning and working environments for both men and women. The lessons we learn in setting aside old practices and beliefs based on subordination of individuals of a certain gender will help us in our larger efforts for social, racial, ethnic, intergenerational and international understanding...