2023-03-29
Small Steps Toward Gender Equity: My Personal Journey
A few months ago, a colleague made me notice that my writings were not gender-neutral. Despite hearing about the topic on a regular basis, it’s like I didn’t really make the connection to my own work and activities. 🤷🏼♂️
This is where I could write « Now I have the reflex so you should have it too »… but actually it’s not the case. My post of yesterday was super gender-biased. 🤦♂️ But at the difference with 6 months ago, I noticed it myself (this morning).
Operating a change in someone’s habits and behaviour takes time. And repetition. And more time. And more repetition. Until it eventually starts changing. You don’t go full gender-bias to full gender-neutral overnight, but a small step here and there helps. And triggers people to improve their (unconscious) communication too.
I’m not an expert in the topic, but I’m convinced we can all have a role in gender equity by just small steps and small local improvements 😊
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I support this initiative, I had started doing this, also.
To be honest, I wasn't sure if it's correct grammar-wise, but it seems it is:
"—used to refer to a single person whose gender is intentionally not revealed"
From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they
Andrei
My first experience with genderneutral writing was I think the book who moved my cheese, were only on the last page it was revealed that one of the characters was a women, and I had to admit, i had assumed it was a man, although the pronouns used in the book were gender neutral until that point…
Yves