Abstract
This study looks into the relationship between the generic use of job titles in professions with high status in Arabic and the social position of women in Saudi society within feminist perspectives of the language. Data for this study were collected form a total of 365 respondents to a questionnaire (168 males and 197 females) in addition to five focus groups. The participants were Saudis of various age groups, marital status, and educational and occupational backgrounds to represent as accurately as possible the views of different segments of society. The results from this study suggests the presence of an inter-relationship between language and the social reality of Saudi women leading to the invisibility of women in language use and in the underlying attitude that controls the interpretation of the generic use of the masculine form to refer exclusively to men. In addition, the bias use of linguistic representations for men and women reflects the inequitable power relations between the two sexes in Saudi society.