【正文】 s lower rank and avoid using prepositional attributes like woman, lady, madam when there is no necessity to show their sex and use one form to designate a person in all three contexts, ., in reference to a male, to a female or to a person whose sex is not specific. For example: actress actor aviatrix aviator usherette usher poetess poet woman engineer engineer girl athlete athlete If it is important to mark the sex of the person, this could be done lexically, for example, we can use the adjectives male or female. It was a woman driver who sent me home. (sexist) It was a female driver who sent me home. Or The driver who sent me home was a woman. (nonsexist) (4) Genderfree words are words inc。 they should be ready to die for it if the need arises. (3) Changing the whole sentence into plural form can also help to avoid sexism. Look at the sentence: Anyone can take part in the piic if he is interested. It is discriminatory. So we can change it into a nonsexist one: All people can take part in the piic if they are interested. (4) Sometimes the first and second pronouns are used to replace he. List an example: One has to be careful when he crosses the road. Obviously, it use he to refer to a person whose sex is unknown. We can change it into ―You have to be careful when you cross the road.‖ to avoid the discrimination. (5) If permitted, the sentence can be changed into passive voice to be nonsexist. Instead of saying ―One should not lose heart when he is beaten in a match.‖, one would be able to say ―One should not lose heart when beaten in a match.‖ (6) Dropping the masculine pronoun can also be seen as a useful way to escape from gender bias.[17] The following sentence can help to know the strategy better. Anybody can attend the meeting if interested in it. Being discriminatory, it is written into ―Anybody can attend the meeting if he is interested in it.‖ Feminists regard masculine pronouns as being ambiguous and discriminatory against women because they can be interpreted as being masculinespecific or neutral and thus, in some cases, be interpreted as not referring to women at all. So it is time that masculine pronouns were changed. The above are some strategies used to avoid generic masculine. These strategies are so useful that they can help the improvement of sexism in language in some extent. And sexism in language is closely linked with sexism in society. So it is good to the elimination of sexism in society in the final analysis. Lexical neutralization Lexical neutralization is also regarded as the major category among solutions to sexist language. Above I have cited some examples that some professions are used to refer to men. When they are used to refer to woman, female or woman or lady is often used. In fact, people do not need to designate the sex of an occupation, for example, woman psychologist or male nurse. If you are quoting a qualified psychologist or nurse, should it make a difference if the information is ing from a man or woman? Generally, I sum up five solutions of lexical neutralization. (1) Try to avoid using man/men or mankind to refer to people in the world and replace it with person, people, humanity, human, human being, the human race, and the human species. The generic term man has been used in two ways: to refer to an adult male human being and as a synonym for human being. Obviously, when you use man and related words to refer to both women and men, you are being sexist. For example: ① Man is the most intelligent of all species. (sexist) Humankind/human being is the most intelligent of all species. (nonsexist) ② All men should maintain the ecological balance. (sexist) All people should maintain the ecological balance. (nonsexist) Or: Everyone should maintain the ecological balance. ③ The project is one of the greatest man39。 semantically, however, the third sentence has the defect of being partial, and the fourth sentence is very ridiculous. From above, one can know that in English using ―man‖ or ―men‖ to indicate ―the human race‖, neglects the fact that men and women are equal in the society. By contraries, they treat man as the of society, an embodiment of criterion and totally ignore the existence of woman.[6] There are many other generic masculine terms such as mantoman, prehistoric man, brotherhood, chairman, and policeman. Women being attached to men The English language distinguishes women‘s courtesy titles on the basis of marital status, but not those of men. There is only one form of address for men, Mr., regardless of martial status. However, the martial status of women is distinguished by Miss and Mrs., reflecting the notion that whether or not a woman is in a marriage. This discriminatory practice is said to mark the availability of women in terms of marriage (sex) and reinforces the view that a woman is the property of a man (either her father or her husband). When a woman has been married, people address her as ―Mrs. plus her husband‘s surname‖. That is to say, if a woman is married to somebody, she has no right to be treated like an unmarried lady. As to a man, that‘s a different matter. For example: In Englishspeaking countries, you can often hear someone call the wife of John Smith ―Mrs. John Smith‖. There is no exception of famous Madame Curie, Mrs. Thatcher, and Mrs. 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 her name Hilary Rodham after marriage. But in order to help her husband in the election, she had to change her name. From the address of men and women, one can clearly see the submissive position of women and women are merely an extension of their husbands or part of their husbands‘ estate. This