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    Non-discriminatory language aims to avoid bias and offense. It recommends using gender-neutral terms like "Ms" instead of "Miss" or "Mrs", and plural pronouns like "they" instead of gender-specific ones. Descriptive terms like "doctor" rather than "woman doctor" are preferred. Broader terms like "humanity" rather than "mankind" and "firefighter" instead of "fireman" are also recommended. The document provides numerous examples of biased and alternative inclusive language to promote diversity and inclusion.

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    Non-discriminatory language aims to avoid bias and offense. It recommends using gender-neutral terms like "Ms" instead of "Miss" or "Mrs", and plural pronouns like "they" instead of gender-specific ones. Descriptive terms like "doctor" rather than "woman doctor" are preferred. Broader terms like "humanity" rather than "mankind" and "firefighter" instead of "fireman" are also recommended. The document provides numerous examples of biased and alternative inclusive language to promote diversity and inclusion.

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    Non-discriminatory language aims to avoid bias and offense. It recommends using gender-neutral terms like "Ms" instead of "Miss" or "Mrs", and plural pronouns like "they" instead of gender-specific ones. Descriptive terms like "doctor" rather than "woman doctor" are preferred. Broader terms like "humanity" rather than "mankind" and "firefighter" instead of "fireman" are also recommended. The document provides numerous examples of biased and alternative inclusive language to promote diversity and inclusion.

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    1 Non Discriminatory Language

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    Shenali Nupehewa
    Non-discriminatory language aims to avoid bias and offense. It recommends using gender-neutral terms like "Ms" instead of "Miss" or "Mrs", and plural pronouns like "they" instead of gender-specific ones. Descriptive terms like "doctor" rather than "woman doctor" are preferred. Broader terms like "humanity" rather than "mankind" and "firefighter" instead of "fireman" are also recommended. The document provides numerous examples of biased and alternative inclusive language to promote diversity and inclusion.

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    Non Discriminatory

    Language
    CS-IT1040-2019
    What is meant by Non Discriminatory
    Language?

    • Avoid using language that is stereotypical or biased in any way.

    • Biased language frequently occurs with gender, but can also


    offend groups of people based on sexual orientation, ethnicity,
    political interest, or race.
    HOW TO USE NON-
    DISCRIMINATORY LANGUAGE?
    Titles of address, rank, occupation, status
    • Instead of: Miss or Mrs

    Use: Ms to parallel Mr (except where the woman prefers Miss or Mrs)

    Ex: Instead of: Contact Professor Brown or his secretary Mary Smith,
    secretary
    Use: Contact Professor Brown or Ms (Miss or Mrs) Mary Smith, secretary
    Eliminate the offending pronoun
    • The use of he and she, she and he, she/he, s/he to refer to
    either female or male persons can be cumbersome (awkward).

    Ex: Instead of: The lecturer will display his timetable on his door

    Use: Lecturers will display their timetable on their office doors.


    The lecturer will display the timetable on the office door.
    Recast into the plural

    • Original: Give each student his paper as soon as he is finished.

    • Alternative: Give students their papers as soon as they are


    finished.
    RE-WORD TO ELIMINATE GENDER
    PROBLEMS.

    • Original:
    The average student is worried about his grade.

    • Alternative:
    The average student is worried about grades.
    Use the generic pronouns
    Everybody Everyone Anybody Anyone One
    Avoid Stereotyped Language
    • Original: Our course is designed to your assistant or secretary
    reach her potential.

    • Correct: Our course is designed to develop the full potential of


    your assistant or secretary.
    Avoid Gender Descriptions

    • A woman doctor → A doctor

    • A lady editor → An editor

    • A male nurse → A nurse


    • Original: mankind
    Alternatives: humanity, people, human beings
    • Original: man's achievements
    Alternative: human achievements
    • Original: man-made
    Alternatives: synthetic, manufactured, machine-made
    • Original: the common man
    Alternatives: the average person, ordinary people
    • Original: man the stockroom
    Alternative: staff the stockroom
    • Original: nine man-hours
    Alternative: nine staff-hours
    • Original: chairman
    Alternatives: coordinator (of a committee or department),
    moderator (of a meeting), presiding officer, head, chair
    • Original: businessman
    Alternatives: business executive, business person
    • Original: fireman
    Alternative: firefighter
    • Original: mailman
    Alternative: mail carrier
    • Original: steward and stewardess
    Alternative: flight attendant
    • Original: policeman and policewoman
    Alternative: police officer
    • Original: congressman
    Alternative: congressional representative
    Instead of - Use-

    the disabled / the people with disabilities/ differently abled


    handicapped / disabled people
    people

    the physically handicapped people with physical disabilities

    the deaf people who are deaf / hearing impaired


    /people who have a hearing disability

    wheelchair bound, cripple A person using a wheelchair.


    • http://www.hr.uwa.edu.au/policies/policies/equity/language#teachin
    g
    • https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/608/6/
    • http://www.newcastle.edu.au/about-uon/governance-and-leadership
    /policy-library/document?RecordNumber=D09_1974P

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