Business Skills - Interview with Deborah Capras

when you use inclusive language, you avoid words, phrases and descriptions that could exclude specific groups of people. Inclusive language is not sexist, it's not racist and it's not ageist. In a nutshell, inclusive language doesn't exclude anyone, doesn't cause offense and doesn't reinforce stereotypes. So it's bias free. This makes it a kind of language that sets a positive tone in the workplace at its most basic inclusive language includes gender neutral terms. So you have humankind instead of mankind actor instead of actress, but it's also about not assigning gender two terms that already gender neutral, for instance, saying female cEO or female boss, Why does this matter? Well, you would never say male cEO by adding female. You're reinforcing the stereotype that a CEO is usually male, which makes it harder for women to be accepted in such roles. Its immense a bias that can lead to women missing out on promotions. In a wider sense, inclusive language is about using words and phrases to create an open and healthy workplace for everyone. It's language that everyone can understand and that welcomes everyone. So inclusive language puts people at ease, makes them feel appreciated and respected for who they are and for what they have achieved in this sense, inclusive language can be, it is most powerful. It encourages diversity of ideas of cultures and of personalities