The word connections informing about the gender in a symmetric way appear recently in a various written and spoken texts. The splitting a lready h as b een used in the interwar period. Subsequently, it was associated mainly with the feminist discourse. Now it goes beyond this feminist discourse. The splitting can be treated as a manifestation of non-discriminatory attitude of the participants of a given language contact. The aim of the present paper is: (1) showing a various sources in which Polish speakers use a splitting; (2) considering the needs and intentions behind such linguistic behaviour.Połączenia wyrazowe informujące o płci w sposób symetryczny, t akie jak mieszkańcy i mieszkanki, politycy i polityczki, pojawiają się w ostatnim c...