Re-gendering means adding gender markers to words which are neutral and could describe persons of differing sex. This guide recommends that you avoid re-gendering neutral words (especially those which are more vulnerable to re-gendering because they are perceived, for one reason or another, as feminine). Therefore, not
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Male nurses constitute 35% of this year’s nursing graduates. |
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Men constitute 35% of this year’s nursing graduates. |
Where it is necessary to show that a group includes both men and women, use distributive expressions.
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The survey obtained similar results among both male and female students. |
Never use the suffix -ess, the prefix she-, or the formula lady + job
title. Therefore manager and not manageress, she-mayor or lady-mayor.
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