Явище мовного андроцентризму і сучасний рух за гендерну рівність. I

With a society developing and social mentality transforming, especially since the XX century, the effect of this principle started undergoing some restrictions, it has become strikingly apparent during the last decades of the XX century first of all in the formation of feminist (gender) linguistics, aiming to systemically eliminate (weaken) the manifestations of female gender linguistic discrimination. Different European languages manifest in these processes — under the influence of either social or proper linguistic factors — various activities. In contemporary Ukrainian, the suffixal feminization reveals the features of an active phenomenon. The fact is determined, however, not only by social factors — an expansion of the female social role, a purposeful influence of the feminist movement, general democratization of linguistic activities, but also by fostering the Ukrainian language characteristics, which are considered to be its specific and to some extent peculiar features. However the numerous and diverse traces of linguistic “patriarchy” in the language structures of European civilization nations, in particular in the Slavic and Romance ones are sure to remain, though in a somewhat weakened form. Firstly, you cannot attach the absolute importance both to the evidence of whether the linguistic worldview adequately mirrors the social conscience, and moreover, the social being and to the power of its influences on a society's linguistic conscience, that is why, androcentrism cannot be, surely, considered as a direct projection of how a society treats females. Secondly, in languages that had grammatical and word-building structures androcentric principle formed long ago, a system of female designations, especially by their social status, business activities, ethnic background and their birthplace / residence is chiefly forced to constantly “catch up with” the system of the corresponding male designations, however, inevitably lagging behind it. Thirdly, different ways of overcoming linguistic “inequality” of females observed in modern languages and those found within gender linguistics, along with the evident upsides, impose some restrictions in realization and may give rise to different attitude on the part of a linguistic community.