The editors of the Proceedings of the CLA take them into account in preparing the proceedings of the annual meeting. There is now a considerable body of research that documents sexism in a wide range of professional activities, including scholarly writing. The CLA and its members adopt the following guidelines to help eliminate sexist language in the CLA's documents and publications and in other linguistics writing and, we hope, in talks and conference papers. The guidelines identify and prohibit some of the most problematic practices. Language, Gender and Professional Writing .
Men are frequently the agents, women the recipients, of violent acts.
We recommend the portrayal of violent acts be avoided altogether regardless of the sex or species of the participant. Avoid peopling your examples exclusively with one sex. Avoid consistently putting reference to males before females. However, caution should be used when employing these names, since they will be assigned gender by the reader where the content of sentences contains gender stereotypes. In glossing forms from another language, do not introduce gender-specificity or asymmetry absent in the original.