Kobiety o sobie - feminatywa w międzywojennych ofertach pracy
Women about themselves - feminatives in interwar job offers

Summary/Abstract: The research problem addressed in the article is the attitude of women towards feminatives in the 1920s and 1930s. 20th century (in the interwar period). The material basis are job offers from the I am looking for a job section in "Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny", a high-circulation newspaper popular among advertisers. It was assumed that this empirical base was representative of the average linguistic custom in the time period covered by the study. The collected material (1,099 advertisements) included 124 different feminatives, of which 87 were the names of paid activities, professions, positions and another 14 referring to education, work experience and position. Feminatives appeared a total of 1,004 times, so an average of 90% of the job offers contained feminatives. The article also gives a negative answer to the question about the emergence of a tendency towards masculinization in the 1930s, i.e. the so-called the use of generic male names to refer to women and by women.

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