Supreme Court handbook on gender stereotypes: Words like eve-teasing, prostitute, slut, mistress, and housewife may soon be out of the legal lexicon and will be replaced by terms like street sexual harassment, sex worker, woman, and homemaker.

The Supreme Court launched a handbook on combating gender stereotypes that would guide judges to avoid the usage of inappropriate gender terms in court orders and legal language.

In this handbook, relationship outside marriage, prostitute/hooker in place of sex worker, unwed mother in place of only mother, child prostitution in place of trafficked child, bastard in place of child whose parents Has not married, street sexual harassment instead of eve-teasing, homemaker instead of housewife, woman with whom a man has had extramarital romantic or sexual relations, instead of mistress, were asked to use.

Apart from this, use of clothing/dress in place of provocative clothing/dress, gender neutral words in place of effeminate (janana), faithful wife/good wife/obedient wife in place of wife, Indian woman/western woman in place of Instead of woman, concubine / keep, such a woman who has a physical relationship with a man other than marriage, such sentences or words should be used.