Thursday 19 February 2015

What Difference Does A Name Make?

  

                                            

  For many years certain jobs were only performed by one gender. Men's jobs such as policeman,fireman or fisherman were once male jobs and jobs such as nurse, teacher,housewife were recognized as female jobs.
 As the times have changed,many women and men have entered jobs that were once gender specific.Now  we hear job titles such as Flight attendant,Chairperson and Home maker. But we still have words to describe carrers and jobs that we have found hard to change.
Although these gender-biased labels reflect our past more accurately than the present,they are still used. Some will try and tell us that some titles are "inclusive" and can be used for both men and women. This is not true.What would happen if a group of males was reffered to as "you gals"?Yet females are called"you guys" all the time.
As careers change and more men and women cross over the gender line to work in these jobs, we need to consider the words used to describe new occupations. We need to reinforce positive gender recognition in the workplace, both in traditional and non-traditional jobs.
Here are some job titles. Can you think of ways you would change these titles, words and phrases to make them more gender fair or neutral.

foreman,congressman,manpower,sportsmanship,tomboy,manmade,bachelor's degree ,
old wives'tale , manhole , layman , lady luck.
 

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