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International Education Studies November, 2008 The Sexism in English and Its Rebuilding Xiang Xu College of Foreign Language Qingdao University of Science and Technology Qingdao 266061, China E-mail: stephenxu10@163.com Abstract Through lots of examples, the passage exhibits the phenomenon of sexism in English and its reason, its main display and its rebuilding, and explains the importance of eliminating it. Keywords: Sexism, Reason, Display, Rebuilding Language is the reflection of every part of society, no exception for English. Setting up the brand of equality and democracy, the western world actually exists a phenomenon called sexism as a well-known tradition. What on earth is Sexism? Here is the definition from American Tradition Dictionary — The discrimination that one group to another, especially male to female. Therefore, owning to language habits, sexism usually refers to discrimination that language used for women. Furthermore, it indicates that the cultural attitude of the person who is writing or speaking is stressing men and displaying women. This paper attempts to analyze sexism in English through reason, display and rebuilding, ect. 1. The reason why sexism appears 1.1 The influence of history development From ancient time on, the ruling position in western society is almost held by male persons. From the Emperor Caesar invading Britain, to Duke William conquering Normandy, until British royal family later, we could nearly find ruling females. After climbing to the high position, men began to look down upon wo