Gender bias is a societal epidemic which developed as a backlash on some individuals. The different clichés and stereotypes society has inculcated on us as individuals, sometimes show in the way we deliver presentations, proposals, and the way we communicate with others. A good writer should be able to disguise his or her identity without an audience having to suggest their gender, race, age, socioeconomic stature from their work. As students of Business and Technical Writing, it is our obligation to educate the public about the inappropriate clichés, stereotypes, and language biases which are used to deride others. A technical communicator’s style of writing is not like other writing styles.  His or her writing is presided over by rules and regulation which acknowledge the need for creating precise, distinctive messages in respect to others. A communicator that does not follow these rules is bound to encounter difficulty with not just colleagues and supervisors in the labor market, but also with friends and family members. Fairness in language is what good communication is all about because it respects individual honor, decorum, and shows their significance.   It is too easy to use fair language in communication because it improves communication.  But one wonders why it is so difficult for others to adhere to these rules. It is sad to note that every gender, race, age and socio-economic classification is guilty of being gender bias.

      The fact is gender bias is based upon cultural stereotypes, which in most situations are wrong.  Gender bias in language, spoken and written, is always in favor of the dominant group. If the situation was different from what it is today, gender biases might not have been too obvious compared to what we have today. Nevertheless, it would not be absent either. For example, using “his” before “her” in a sentence, this is due to the fact that in the past, men were the dominant among the genders. This clarifies fact about dominance. It is strange if that if the sentence was switched around, even to women, it would sound funny and incorrect because of how long society has made us idealize the concept of the man being the dominant one among the two genders.