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GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE - European Parliament
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 Group on gender Equality and Diversity European Parliament 20183 WHAT IS gender NEUTRALITY I
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
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