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why language matters in the gender debate

  • Written by Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
why language matters in the gender debateWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

There has been much debate recently about the way women who work in our federal parliament are treated. This discussion has highlighted that society continues to place very different values on the way women and men behave.

Language – as a behaviour – holds a mirror up to these values. And changing...

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