List of gender unjust terms issued by SC
New Delhi, Aug 17: The Supreme Court on Wednesday launched a handbook on stereotype gender unjust terms and suggested alternative words and phrases for use in the judicial discourse and in orders and judgments.
Following is the list of terms:
*Adulteress: Woman who has engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage.
*Affair: Relationship outside of marriage
*Bastard: Non-marital child or a child whose parents were not married
*Biological sex/biological male/biological female: Sex assigned at birth
*Born a girl/boy: Assigned female/male at birth
*Career woman: Woman
*Carnal intercourse: Sexual intercourse
*Chaste woman: Woman
*Child prostitute: Child who has been trafficked
*Concubine/keep: Woman with whom a man has had romantic or sexual relations outside of marriage
*Dutiful wife/faithful wife/good wife/obedient wife: Wife
*Easy virtue (e.g. a woman of easy virtue): Woman
*Effeminate (when used pejoratively): Accurately describe the characteristic using a gender neutral term (e.g. confident or responsible)
*Eve teasing: Street sexual harassment
*Faggot: Accurately describe the individual's sexual orientation (e.g. homosexual or bisexual)
*Fallen woman: Woman
*Feminine hygiene products: Menstrual products
*Forcible rape: Rape
*Harlot: Woman
*Hermaphrodite: Intersex
*Hooker: Sex worker
*Hormonal (to describe a woman's emotional state): Use a gender neutral term to describe the emotion (e.g. compassionate or enthusiastic)
*Housewife: Homemaker
*Indian woman/western woman: Woman
*Ladylike: Use a gender neutral description of behaviour or characteristics (e.g. amusing or assertive)
*Layabout/Shirker: Unemployed
*Marriageable age: A woman who has attained the legal age required to marry
*Mistress: Woman with whom a man has had romantic or sexual relations outside of marriage
*Prostitute: Sex worker
*Provider/Breadwinner: Employed or earning
*Provocative clothing/dress: Clothing/dress
*Ravished (e.g. she was "ravished" by him): Sexually harassed/assaulted or raped
*Seductress: Woman
*Sex change: Sex reassignment or gender transition
*Slut: Woman
*Spinster: Unmarried woman
*Survivor or victim: An individual who has been affected by sexual violence may identify themselves as either a "survivor" or "victim". Both terms are applicable unless the individual has expressed a preference, in which case the individual's preference should be respected.
*Transsexual: Transgender
*Transvestite: Cross-dresser
*Unwed Mother: Mother
*Violated (e.g. he violated her): Sexually harassed/assaulted or raped
*Whore: Woman
*Woman of loose moral/easy virtue/promiscuous woman/wanton woman: Woman
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
