This issue addresses the linguistic equalization of men and women in Switzerland. It features articles in four languages (French, German, Italian, and Raeto-Roman), providing an overview over Switzerland's four linguistic regions, new perspectives, and work in progress. The articles include issues such as the "masculinization of the German language"; sexism in the Raeto-Roman press; the cognitive representation of both genders; early evening shows in Swiss private channels and their linguistic distance to women; male and female lovers-gender and language in private realms; and as the linguistic equalization of men and women in Switzerland. Also included are essays on the structure of modern literature, addressing new paths to text analysis and on how German-speaking Swiss children learn how to write and tell stories, with regard to text structure and vocabulary of children's text in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany. (AS)