Women have fought long and hard to be treated equally in language as well as in society because they know that language can cause changes in attitudes. If every person isn’t referred to as he, people will begin to realize that men aren’t the only ones who are important or who have made great achievements. Most words that indicate only one gender have been replaced with words that refer to both males and females, Thus a poetess is called a poet, a waitress is a server, and mankind has become humankind.