Gender equality enters the Treccani vocabulary

Gender equality enters the Treccani vocabulary

A real revolution, according to linguists Valeria Della Valle and Giuseppe Patota, who define this new version of the vocabulary, not only updated with respect to the work published in 2018. But «the mirror of the changing world and the fruit of need to validate and give dignity to a new vision of society “.

All things that «cannot but inevitably pass through a new and different use of words that promote gender inclusiveness and equalityDella Valle and Patota explain on the Treccani website.

First beautiful and then beautiful

To understand better, you need to know that in Italian, the masculine grammatical gender is used in an “overextended” way. That is, it sometimes replaces the function which in Latin was of the neuter, but also to indicate mixed male and female groups.

For this reason nouns and adjectivesin dictionaries, they are always indicated by convention in the masculine, with the clarification of the feminine ending. For example, the adjective “beautiful” is found in this form, followed by the feminine form “beautiful”.

Treccani vocabulary: break with tradition

The novelty of the new Treccani vocabulary will be break this convention in the name of “gender equality”.

So, go to the double form in alphabetical order: therefore, looking for the meaning of the adjective beautiful or suitable now, we will find registered and displayed in bold, also its feminine form, always following the alphabetical order: nice nice; suitable, suitable.

But not only that, because they will also be found professions declined to women, as an architect, notary, surgeon and soldier. But there will also be the ministers and councilors who have long been asking for the feminine form of these traditionally masculine terms.

And finally, more attention is also being paid on gender stereotypes guy “the mother is ironing, the father reads the newspaperthe mother cooks, the father goes to work “still too often in school texts.

Female leadership is growing

If society changes, it is right that the language also changes, there is nothing wrong with that. However, it remains fundamental, especially on the subject of stereotypes, support the shift towards equality in fact.

And even if Italy is still behind on this issue, something seems to be moving. In fact, despite the STEM Faculty students And women who hold important positions they are not yet in an acceptable number compared to their male colleagues, it is not wrong to say that the road is now open.

One in four women in managerial roles

In tech companies, for example, female leadership grew by 20%. And, according to the results that emerge from the report “Women Tech Entrepreneurs“, Created by Klecha & Co, an independent investment bank specializing in the tech sectors, by 2022 one in four women will hold managerial roles in leading global technology organizations (+ 4% compared to 2019).

The study also records one slight growth of women working in the tech sector (+ 6.9%), while the employment of women with highly specialized technological roles grew by + 11.7%.

“The contribution of women to business can also create a virtuous circle in our economies” explained Fabiola Pellegrini, co-founder and Partner of Klecha & Co .. “Major female-led companies would enrich the system with new and innovative solutions. Tech is the main sector of innovation and the one most open to the change of a paradigm or an ancestral bias. And even if the numbers are still small compared to those of male tech, show that the “ice” has been broken“.

But in the meantime at the Aniene rowing club …

Less good news coming from the exclusive (term perhaps taken a little too literally) Circolo Canottieri Aniene in Rome that welcoming women is just not there.

An 82-year-old architect, however, suspended from the order for disciplinary reasons appealed against the resolution which in April, taking a historic decision, has club membership open to women.

To the old gentleman, gender equality at the Aniene Club does not go down. There is, however, that to ask for the suspension of a resolution you need valid reasons, which he does not have.

Since to invalidate it appeals to the fact that the place where the assembly took place would not have respected the Covid protocols, and that the voting modalities have been confused and irregular. True or not, but unfortunately for him simple opinions.

Unfortunately for him, though, the judge, a woman, rejected the appeal. The impression, however, is that the matter is by no means over.

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