Gender Discrimination In English

The sexism is a major issue in society has attracted considerable attention in many cultures because of different roles in society between men and women.. Men are known as a person who has a high position in the society and wise knowledge as well as professional education. Women are considered as a housekeeper or babysister who does not need to go out the society to strive to make a living. That is the reason why women do not need a high social position or high education as men. If women also want to prove themselves and go out to do their own business, they have to ensure that they have enough time to complete and take care thoughtfully both duties. The position of men always is put in front of women in all aspects. This leads in the gender

Gender discrimination is originated from the different attitudes and behaviors toward men and women. The labor division leads in the change in socio economy is one of the social reason. From the beginning, women are in a higher social position than men so women dominated in the socio economy at that time. But after a long time, men realised their physical strength ability and occupied the women social position. They have to stay in limited area while men worked outside without any restriction so women became dependent on men. This is the origin of gender discrimination in all aspects of the society including

Pronoun is a pronoun that refers to people or things that already been mentioned or that is obvious from the context, in the grammatical sense (macmilandictionary.com). When we don’t want to mention directly or repeat a noun unnecessarily many times, we will use personal pronoun to represent or replace it. Every language in the world has to have personal pronoun that is divided into persons singular or plural (oxford.edu.vn). A group of nouns that refers to common gender such as person, teacher, student, etc. is called generic nouns (Cameron, 1985). Generic pronoun is equal to both women and men. But in English, masculin terms are used to refer to male in particular and human beings in general with the passing over women in silence. Pronouns show gender consisting of he, she, her, him, himself and herself. In some cases that subjects are detetmined exactly are masculine or feminine, pronouns are used to refer to appropriate gender. But in some cases subjects are not determined in gender terms such as people, nobody, anybody and so on, masculine pronouns will be used in these cases as generic pronouns. For instance, “If a person want to hit you, you have to try to hit him first” or “If anyone calls, ask who is he and I will call him back