Transcription of GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
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GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
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, I very much welcome this updated edition of thegender- neutral LANGUAGE guidelines which is the fruit of a close collaboration amongthe relevant linguistic and administrative European Parliament remains as committed as ever to the use of gender -neutrallanguage in its written and spoken communications and I now invite the relevantservices to raiseawareness of the updated guidelines and the importance of theiruse in parliamentary publications and PapadimoulisVice-PresidentChair of the High-Level G
language policies and proposed such guidelines at various levels. Gender-neutral language is a generic term covering the use of non-sexist language, inclusive language or gender-fair language. The purpose of gender-neutral language is to avoid word choices which may be interpreted as biased, discriminatory or demeaning by implying that one ...
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