OT: Qantas Airlines bans staff from from using ‘gender-inappropriate’ words

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Bored in the off season and saw this on the yahoo home page.

“Language can make groups of people invisible. For example, the use of the term ‘chairman’ can reinforce the idea that leaders are always men,” the information pack states.

‘Husband and wife’, and ‘mum and dad’ have too been blacklisted from staff members’ vocabulary, with partner, spouse and parents the preferred terms to avoid excluding LGBTI families

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-asks-staff-use-gender-appropriate-terms.html
 

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