We do not only use language to communicate and to express ourselves but also to describe our surroundings and internalize our impressions of both ourselves and others. One of the main characteristics of language is that it constantly changes in order to adapt to the needs of the modern world. Daniel Wojahn (2013) considers the power of language so great that he assigns to it the role of an "active creator of reality". This way he wants to emphasize that language is not the only one in the process of constant adaptation - the world adapts to language, too. Some of the changes in language are related to the changes in attitudes towards women and men and to the understanding of gender in general. In the past, when women were granted the same rights as men, some linguists wanted to make language more inclusive - they thought that using gender-neutral language would contribute to the more equal world. Some examples of such changes underwent by Swedish are presented in this paper. Changes such as using the pronoun en instead of the pronoun man, using gender-neutral forms when talking about professions, and using the gender-neutral pronoun hen.