Gender-appropriate representation of Vertec terms

Gender-appropriate language aims to recognise and normalise diversity, which is why it is also relevant for companies at all levels of communication. The use of gender-appropriate language sends a message both to employees in the company and to potential customers.

This application is an Additional Feature . The corresponding config sets can be found here .

Application

In order to name not only the masculine form, special characters can be used. When gendering with special characters, the respective symbol is placed between the masculine and the feminine endings.

In this article, two config sets are available, with which the German Vertec terms are represented in a gender-appropriate form by means of translations. You can choose between the spelling with an asterisk or a colon.

Example of translations when importing the config set with Genderstern:

Note:

This additional feature translates some terms that also occur in other additional features. The translation of the last loaded config set is always used.

• If the gender-config set is loaded after another config set, the terms of the other config sets are also automatically translated gender-appropriate.
• If the gender-config set is loaded first and then one of the other config sets is loaded, the terms of the other config set are used – and thus without gender matching.
• If the Gender-Config set is deleted, the translations are also deleted and are therefore no longer available for the other config set.

Missing or unwanted translations are best reentered or edited manually, see Translation entries in vertec .

Requirements and Download

Important information before importing can be found in the article Interesting facts about the additional features . The exact import process can be found in the Articles about the config sets .

Download the additional feature with the following download link:

The following objects are created by importing the config set: