“What is not named does not exist”: how our oral habits make women invisible

Do you pay attention, when expressing yourself, to ensure an equal representation of women and men? Or, on the contrary, are you used to saying that “the masculine prevails”? In other words, do you speak the egalitarian language? While the new guide of the High Council for Equality (HCE) has just been published “for public communication without gender stereotypes”, what about our daily conversations? For example, when you mention the people who work with you, are “collaborators” systematically followed by “collaborators”? Unless you prefer epicene words, the form of which does not vary according to gender, such as “colleagues”, “all the staff”…