The Issue of Gender Neutrality

Gender-neutral awards may not be a problem for someone as successful as Cate Blanchett, but that doesn’t mean they’re a good idea

It is, of course, Blanchett’s prerogative to call herself whatever she likes, but the matter of fact is she is an actress since actress means “a woman whose profession is acting on stage, in films, or on television”.

There are two separate issues here:

Looking as far back as the beginning of the women’s rights movement, we can find the endorsement of the idea that the goal is to allow women access to a male-dominated space without making any significant changes to that space.

We can find this sentiment in John Stuart Mill’s work On the Subjugation of Women: “What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favour of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favour of men should be recalled.”

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