{"id":72382,"date":"2019-09-26T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72382"},"modified":"2019-09-26T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:08:17","slug":"words-ending-in-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/words-ending-in-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Ending In -man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">Many words ending in <b>-man<\/b> do not have a common feminine equivalent. Examples are: <b>chairman, fireman, spokesman<\/b> etc. Since most women dislike being called, for example, <i>chairman<\/i> or <i>spokesman<\/i>, these words are now often avoided in references to women. They are also avoided in general references to people of either sex. In many cases, <b>-person<\/b> is now used instead of man.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane has just been elected chairperson of our club.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In some cases, words ending in <b>-woman<\/b> are coming into use. Example: spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a move to choose words, which are not gender-marked. Examples are: <i>supervisor<\/i> instead of <i>foreman<\/i>, <i>firefighter<\/i> instead of <i>fireman<\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many words ending in -man do not have a common feminine equivalent. Examples are: chairman, fireman, spokesman etc. Since most women dislike being called, for example, chairman or spokesman, these words are now often&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72383,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72382\/revisions\/72383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}