浅析英语中的性别歧视现象

　　Gandhi.[7] Mrs. Thatcher is the former Prime Minister in UK.

　　However, few people know her own family names.[8] Mr.

　　Clinton’s wife, Hilary Clinton, as a liberated woman, kept hername Hilary Rodham after marriage. But in order to help herhusband in the election, she had to change her name. From theaddress of men and women, one can clearly see the submissiveposition of women and women are merely an extension of theirhusbands or part of their husbands’ estate. This also reflectsin the language.

　　3.1.4 Female as an exceptionEnglish itself has no difference of gender. But in thisman-centered society, people is used to believing thatprestige person are always males. However, a woman who oncereceives great popularity is regarded as a special exception.

　　Many professionals such as doctor, professor, engineer,lawyer, pilot, judge, surgeon can be used to indicate bothmales and females. But when indicating female’s position,professional, etc., these words are created by adding a boundmorpheme or by combining them with a word referring tofemale.[9] Because these satisfactory jobs are traditionallyviewed as ones qualified only by males. Women are just theappendant to men. The words below can best illustrate it:

　　Common gender Masculine gender Femininegenderwaiter waiter waitresshero hero heroinepilot pilot woman pilotdoctor doctor woman doctorsurgeon surgeon femalesurgeonlawyer lawyer lady lawyerInterestingly, when we hear other people say “ My cousin is alawyer.”, most people always conclude that my cousin is amale. Most of the time, whenever we refer to a woman, we haveto elaborately add woman, female or lady before manyprofessionals.