Transcription of GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
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GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGEin theEuropean Parliament2 FOREWORDIn 2008, the European Parliament was one of the first international organisations toadopt multilingual guidelines on GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE . I am pleased that, sincethen, many other institutions and organisations have adopted similar guidance. Onthe occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the guidelines, and in order to reflectlinguistic and cultural developments, the High-Level Group on gender Equality andDiversity requested Parliament s services to update the GENDER-NEUTRAL languageguidelines, whichprovide practical advice in all official languages on the use ofgender-fair and inclusive behalf of the High-Level Group.
widely accepted gender-neutral forms from existing words in those languages, alternative approaches have been sought and recommended in administrative and political language. Feminisation (i. e. the use of feminine correspondents of masculine terms or the use of both
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