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I'm convinced. Where can I mention that women are very welcome?

I'm convinced. Where can I mention that women are very welcome?

Posted Aug 30, 2009 2:17 UTC (Sun) by hypatiadotca (guest, #60478)
In reply to: I'm convinced. Where can I mention that women are very welcome? by coriordan
Parent article: FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

"The crowd could be stuck there all night if they don't leave the owner's office now."

Presumably the owner is known to be male or female anyway, but a 3-second look at that sentence told me how to rephrase it in any event. It does get easier once you start writing for neutrality on a regular basis.

It's even a plural "they" in this case :)

I've mentioned it else-thread, but Miller and Swift's "Handbook of Nonsexist Writing" is really a fantastic resource on the topic. I refer to it on at least a weekly basis.

The one word I haven't found a decent neutral version for is "handyman". "Fixer" just doesn't have the same flavour to it, and "repair person" is just meh.


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