Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Guide to Inclusive Language:
Term – Suggested alternative
“Best man for the job” – Best person for the job
“Businessman/woman” – Businessperson, manager, executive
“Chairman/woman” – Chair, chairperson, convenor, head
“Charwoman, cleaning lady” – Cleaner
“Craftsman/woman” – Craftsperson, craft worker
“Delivery man” – Delivery clerk, courier
“Dear Sirs” – Dear Sir/Madam (or Madam/Sir)
“Fireman” – Fire-fighter
“Forefathers” – Ancestors, forebears
“Foreman/woman” – Supervisor, head juror
“Gentleman’s agreement” – Unwritten agreement, agreement based on trust
“Girls” (for adults) – Women
“Headmaster/mistress” – Head teacher
“Housewife” – Shopper, consumer, homemaker (depends on context)
“Layman” – Lay person
“Man” or “mankind” – Humanity, humankind, human race, people
“Man” (verb) eg man the desk – Operate, staff, work at
“Man in the street”, “common man” – Average/ordinary/typical citizen/person – but is there such a person?
“Man-hour” – Work-hour, labour time
“Man-made” – Artificial, manufactured, synthetic
“Manpower” – Human resources, labour force, staff, personnel, workers, workforce
“Miss/Mrs” – Ms unless a specific preference has been stated – though its common not to use titles at all these days
“Policeman/woman” – Police Officer
“Right-hand man” – Chief assistant
“Salesman/girl/woman” – Sales assistant/agent/clerk/representative/staff/worker
“Spokesman/woman” – Spokesperson, representative
“Sportsmanship” – Fairmess, good humour, sense of fair play
“Steward/ess” – Airline staff, flight attendant, cabin crew
“Tax man” – Tax officer/inspector
“Waitress” – Waiter, server
“Woman doctor” (or feminine forms of nouns eg actress, poetess) – Doctor (actor, poet etc)
“Working man”, “working mother/wife” – Wage-earner/taxpayer/worker
“Workman” – Worker/operative/trades person
“Workmanlike” – Efficient/proficient/skilful/thorough
Man-oh-man, that’s a lot of dismissal of our men by some silly women.
Hello there, chief assistant? When did anyone last hear charwoman in NZ?
As long as nobody calls me ‘girlie’ I’m good.
God does it, lol, I must be getting old.
Hi Rachael, good to have YSB back. I hope evetyone else who was here finds there way back. It was building nicely and then…
I am sure they will, wasn’t too stressful at my end but it must have been for Holysheet I imagine.
Thats putting it mildly.
That’s me, the mistress of understatement lol.
I did email to find out was going on. Got a mice email back saying upgrades. Impatient me.
Nice, jeez
Universities have always been the cesspools of political correctness.
What happened today, where was/is everyone?
Where have you been for the past 2 days? Site was playing funny buggers and no one could comment. All fixed now I hope.
I blamed the pc police lol.
Quite plausable thought with the way the CoL are dragging us all down the socialist drain and their growing control over everything we say and do.
Yes, your submit buttons were missing.
Personally, I dislike submitting. 😉
Yeah I don’t think anyone would take you as the submissive type.
Been checking for the past few days:
– random which blog posts appeared
– still no HYS for 20 June
– the few times when the site loaded, the “Post Comment” and “Cancel” click boxes weren’t appearing
Been very quirky and so much to comment on – I blame Labour for dirty politics and hacking the site.
Tranny – Mental patient
Union member – Trusting lambs for the greedy wolfs
Labour politician – Hollow Virtue signaller
Green politician – Deranged conspiracy follower
Oh I could go on ……
Been busy.
Good to see everyone back.
Chairman has nothing to do with gender.It comes from management from memory .
I know Peta Credlin has mentioned it on her show.