New words show an awareness in today’s society that differences are good and that everyone deserves respect. Even the names of certain jobs have changed so that workers can be proud of what they do. The trashman is now called a sanitation worker, a doorman is an attendant, and a janitor is a custodian.
Our important influence on our language in the past decade has been the changing role of women in modern society. There was a time when an unmarried woman was called a spinster. But that was before women went into space in