浅析英语中的性别歧视现象

　　But other professionals like secretary, nurse, typist,receptionist, dressmaker, are often used to indicate females.

　　When they are used to refer to males, you should add male orman before them, such as: male nurse, male typist, and malesecretary. It makes clear that men monopolize the high statusprofessionals. Women can only do service work or low socialstatus work.

　　English is a kind of super masculine language. This can beeasily seen in compound words formed by word plus manstructure, such as chairman, businessman, congressman,newsman, statesman, salesman, mailman, policeman, andspokesman. From these words, we can easily know that males arethe center of the society. These jobs are certainly taken bymales and women are completely excluded.

　　In addition, there are some female professionals formed byadding the bound morpheme such as –ess, -ine to the root. Forexample:

　　Male Femalepoet poetessprince princessgod goddesscount countesshero heroineThis kind of word-formation seems to tell that women arederived from men and attached to men. These discriminatorypractices often make women invisible and treat them secondary.

　　3.1.5 Word orderSexism in language is also reflected in word order. When menand women are presented together, usually words denoting malesex are put in front of female sex. Making females come secondreflects the sexist attitude that men are superior to women.

　　It is not hard to find male-female word order pairs in Englishliterature, newspaper, magazines as well as in speech, such asmale and female, husband and wife, father and mother, boys andgirls, his and hers, son and daughter, brother and sister,host and hostess, king and queen, Adam and Eve and so on. Nomatter in books or on radio, even in daily dialogue, we canoften read and hear such words: