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The influence of feminist movement on English vocabulary.
It doesn't really matter. I'm not talking nonsense, at least from the vocabulary I come into contact with. Because the feminist movement mainly strives for equality of rights-that is, women's voting rights, equal pay for equal work and equal opportunities.

Therefore, words that specifically refer to women, or words that specifically refer to women (including general, insulting and discriminatory), have not changed. Such as professional titles, professional titles, there have always been special words (not involving any discrimination). Insults are always used and everything is forgiven.

If you are asking about the words that appeared after the social conditions changed after the feminist movement, I can only think of the abbreviation "Dink" for the time being. Double income without children (both husband and wife work and have no children) and "family husband" (full-time father) and things like that.

If you ask about some words that appeared during the feminist movement, you can get some results by consulting feminist English feminism. But I don't think that's what you're asking.

For formal English vocabulary, we think it is included in the most authoritative Oxford English Dictionary and Longman English Dictionary.

As I said before, the address of women is differentiated by gender (such as "he" and "she"), so there is no change. At most, there are only some words such as policewoman and bossess (because there was no policewoman before). This type is a bit redundant. Here's an interesting thing to tell you: because women's rights advocate equality, some appellations are originally aimed at men. They don't let others change them, that is, they seek equality in appellation.

So: Where do many new English words come from? That is the discovery and invention of new things. But objectively speaking, most of these things are dominated by men (not that I discriminate, but that it has been a long time). Women's career orientation is different from that of men. ), so this part really doesn't matter But some things in life, such as fashion and fashionable words, also appear when women walk to the front desk.

But these things, so to speak, may appear even without the feminist movement. Think about it. One hundred years ago, China was also unequal between men and women. Does the current Chinese vocabulary have any influence? There really isn't.

In my opinion, you should pay attention to the phenomena, things and systems influenced by feminism.

Because as I said before, feminism pursues practicality. Just like you are in a company, you want certain rights from your boss, working hours, salary and promotion opportunities. Instead of what the boss calls you, the language used between colleagues should be standardized, and what can't be said and what should be said.