ABOUT ME

In the late 1980s, Patricia Niedzwiecki wrote a groundbreaking essay on sexism in language.

As a guest memeber of the Terminology Commission on Feminization – founded by Yvette Roudy and chaired by Benoîte Groult in Paris from 1984 to 1986 – she devoted part of her doctoral research to gender-based language differentiation at Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot.

Her thesis and academic research focus on gendered language(the language of women and men) and multilingualism.

She later contributed to the drafting of official documents on feminization in language, including the 1988 Recommendation of the Belgian Ministry of Employment and Labor and the 1994 Decree by the French-speaking Community of Belgium, both of which were based on parts of her thesis word.

In 1996, she published a major report for the European Commission entitled General Policy Note on the Feminization of Language.