1.Introduction <br /> 2. Women&#8217;s position in Finland <br /> 3. Research on gender in Finnish <br /> 4. Gender in Finnish <br /> 4.1 Personal nouns: Referential and morphological aspects <br /> 4.2 Male generics <br /> 4.3 Female generics <br /> 5. The interpretation of male generics: Empirical evidence <br /> 6. The empirical investigation of covert male bias <br /> 6.1 The prototypical human being <br /> 6.2 <i>Ihminen</i> as &#8216;woman&#8217; <br /> 7. Gender in Finnish proverbs <br /> 8. Gendered terms of abuse <br /> 9. Female/male discourse <br /> 10. Language reform <br /> 11. Conclusion <br /> <i>Notes <br />References</i>