Language and Gender

I think that in some cases language varies quite significantly between genders. For example when males read something or talk about some they don't know they automatically make the assumption that the writer or the person they are talking about is a male. In speech we will relate to someone we don't know using "him" or "he". I don't know why we do this but it could perhaps be put down to unintentional sexism. I think this is because we live in a society where men believe we are superior to women. Women seem to have been placed in a lower position in society which is wrong. Most women cannot compete with men physically but it is absurd for them to be placed below men in society. Sexism in language has stemmed from a very long time ago when women had very few rights, there is no reason for sexism in language to have continued until now
The main scholars I found who have studied power and dominance thoroughly in speech are Spender, Zimmerman, West, O'Barr and Bowman.