Senta Trömel-Plötz (born February 26, 1939, in Munich) is a German linguist.
She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with the dissertation, Simple Copula Structures in English.
Trömel-Plötz believes that anti-feminist beliefs at the time prevented her being given tenure.
Her sociolinguistic text Linguistik und Frauensprache (Linguistics and Women's Language), which was published for the first time in 1978[3] in the journal Linguistische Berichte,[4] broke new ground for feminist linguistics in German-speaking countries.
This essay proposed "a problematic conflation of grammatical and biological gender" for the first time.