the Agent, workman, official, boss.
in Finnish labour markets appear to men as a second job. A familiar phenomenon fleshed out by the job market the content to the master Laura Gladille in the spring, when their own jobs on the site of the eye hit the job announcement, which was applied for measure of a man.
I was Thinking about how even in 2019 can be applied to work the dimensions of a man. Google was, and the word there is a clear gender-neutral title, i.e. measurement. This leave the broader discussion, could we do something about it, Glad to tell you.
the end result of a job market search engine can starting Thursday looking for work, the traditional trade items but also the gender neutral alternatives. For example, a warehouse job can be found also a warehouse manager or security of the person protects the.
examples of a job market search for lasse Isokangas / Yle
the Objective is that the terms to pigeonhole professions women’s work or men’s work, and closed thus people opportunities to choose your future career or jobs.
– Language is constantly influencing the way that we see our chance in working life, the Glad notes.
the Whole list you can look at this link (go to another service) or the table thing at the end.
Kolamies, kolaaja or winter maintenance?
the List is made in collaboration with the national foreign language center, institute of, with. Included is about 130 alternative titles, including over 50 this presentation according to the website new.
the Wheel did not need to be reinvented, but the plumping was old titles and expressions.
a Whole new words born only one: winter maintenance. It and kolaaja are options kolamiehen for. All other options have been compiled already-existing titles, told the institute of the expert Elisa Dufva .
many of the gender for the item has been already existing and more or less extensive use of professional titles suitable for the neutral option. Now they can become more common knowledge, Dufva says.
Always not item to change. Dufva point out that, for example, the word agent also belongs to the law and legal language. Shipping in the engineer’s professional qualifications, which can not be replaced.
the Job advertisement the image will determine when the applicant will assess whether the job is suitable. – The professional title can contribute to that, experience does the applicant work to be referred to him or not, estimates the institute of expert Elisa Dufva.Pekka Tynell / YLEKieli is the use of power, and, therefore, block clang
the Target language of the boundaries created by the elimination has been featured in the past. The Finnish language board recommended (move to another service)2007, promoting equality and sexist language, avoiding, the European council took a position in the 1990s.
Two years ago, the morning paper (you move to another service) caused a storm when a magazine told me to start the gender-neutral title to use. The speaker of parliament the title change for president it was thought to reduce the traditional mission of dignity. On the other hand, they wondered, why individual words are given so much weight.
we Want to encourage businesses and employers to think about these titles, and hope that all would go according to
Laura Glad
Looking for can at times clang, because language reflects power structures, proactive language scholar Mila Engelberg . He has been involved in the process as an expert.
–in an effort to create a language that treats people equally, I think it is a power of redistribution. It makes some people nervous, because they feel that their usual position are tackled, Engelberg’s assessment.
the language of equality cleaning is important, because people associate the tested man teminated items, such as officials and lawyers, more men than women, said the language of the researcher Mila engelberg pekka Tynell / Yle
the Finnish language is usually considered neutral, because it is not gender refers to the personal pronouns, like English “she” or “they”.
professional titles it is not. On the contrary, gender-specific professions is in Finnish surprisingly a lot of, the morning paper calculations (switch to another service), about 1 500. Majority of them have different areas of “men. Lawyers and carpenters among men is also women suggestive of professions, but the deacon and mistress are the exception to the rule.
engelberg, according to man-word of generalizing the use of all people created the norm, according to which a woman is singled out to be special features.
We have research data that the officials and the other man-the domain of the professions perceived as gender neutral, Engelberg says.
for Example, a lawyer in the interpretation of neutral than a lawyer.
the meaning of Words seems obvious, when the fixture is reversed. Air travel male workers is not called flight attendants, but stuerteiksi.
job market: learn from us,
job market Laura Glad to stress, that employers or businesses need to change their own alerts but jobs can still be found also in traditional search.
for Example, a fire rescuer job postings can still get the word firefighter.
– we Want to encourage businesses and employers to think about these titles, and hope that all would go in on this, Glad to say.
the language of the researcher Mila Engelberg to keep the company open an important example. Visit the site weekly to half a million job seeker.
– a Concrete act of gender equality the language through the use of.
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