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Gender discrimination, in a broad sense refers to a gender bias and prejudice, and more to the discrimination against women , the phenomenon of discrimination against women exists in all aspects of social life . In the process of social development is always the dominant male , and language is also affected by this social phenomenon .

作为交流工具的语言，真实地反映了人们的社会态度。虽然语言不能决定意识形态，但在某些方面，语言确实会影响人的意见。作为历史悠久的一个社会问题，存在性别歧视，几乎在每一个语言，反映了男性统治的社会中，女性对男性的依赖，以及对妇女的歧视。

Language as a communication tool , a true reflection of people's social attitudes . Although language can not decide ideology, but in some ways , the language does affect people 's views . As long history of a social problem , gender discrimination exists in almost every language, and reflects the male domination in society , women 's dependence on men , as well as discrimination against women .

从20世纪60年代起，英语语言性别歧视成为语言学家和语言学研究的热点问题感兴趣的学者，到现在为止，这个话题仍然吸引许多学者研究的发展努力。在本文中，语言中的性别歧视为出发点，通过说明使用英语语法，词汇，语义等方面可能出现的性别歧视和偏见，学习英语中的性别歧视现象。从历史，社会和文化的角度形成的原因，性别歧视的语言，探讨了消除性别歧视的语言，这样的根本途径。

From the 1960s onwards, the English language Sexism become linguists and scholars interested in linguistics research hotspot problem , until now, this topic is still attracting many scholars have examined the development efforts . In this paper, Sexism in language as a starting point , through syntactic , lexical , semantic and other aspects illustrate use of English may appear the phenomenon of gender discrimination and prejudice to study English in the gender discrimination . And from the historical, social and cultural point of view of the reasons for the formation sexist language , and explores the elimination of sexist language such a fundamental way .

Language is the most important tool for human communication and thinking, and it reflects the thoughts, attitudes, and cultures of human beings. To a great extent, language is affected by people's social views, values, behavior norms, political concepts and cultural traditions. Gender discrimination is influenced by the development of society and culture.

With social development, more and more women achieve equality in family and social world that is dominated by men ever before, but those phenomenons are existed in many aspects. Although the use of gender discrimination in English language is often unconscious and unintentional, it is undoubtedly harmful.

Gender discrimination, in the Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese dictionary, it means that disapproving action based on the ideas or belief that the members of one sex are less intelligent, able, and skillful, etc, than the members of the other sex, especially that women are less able than men and those particular jobs and actions are suitable for women and others are suitable for men. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines gender discrimination as discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women; attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender. From these definitions, we can find that gender discrimination is the practice of discriminating against people because of their gender.

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