Gender Sensitive Reform of Language as an Element of the Global Social Policy: Experience of International Womens Movement

Abstract

Current paper highlights the necessity of development of gender-based approach tolanguage policy aiming to counteract social effect of linguistic sexism in post-soviet societies. 
An important aspect of this process is a comprehensive study of the international experience of gender-sensitive language reformation and planning necessary to forestall and then to avoid possible problems which may arise in the course of anti-sexist language campaigns. As a possible means to outlaw the functioning of linguistic sexism globally the paper offers to develop and provide a legal status to the gender-based approach to linguistic human rights.