Gender Fair Language: The Nascent Emergence for Gender Equity
GENDER FAIR LANGUAGE: The Nascent Emergence for Gender Equity During the 1970’s the need for a kind of language which may be free from all kind of gender prejudices and may linguistically promote the competence of gender parity by avoiding all discriminatory linguistic practices. The same demand constituted the strong foundation for the advent of Gender Fair Language or Gender Inclusive Language or even Gender Neutral Language strongly advocating the avoidance of any sort of linguistic gender biases prevailing then in language practice existing in any form whether written or spoken. Many academic and non-academic organizations as part of their self-initiative issued guidelines from time to time on gender inclusivity and the usages of GFL. NCTE, India also came up with similar guidelines with the title Guidelines for Gender-Fair Use of Language, which was further revised in 2018 as Statement on Gender and Language discussing how gender differs from sex and sexuality. The first NCTE “
