The Need For A Gender Neutral Pronoun
The English language badly needs a gender neutral pronoun . The more I write, the more I feel the need for this. In my post yesterday, Does Your VP of HR Report To Your CEO? I felt this very acutely as I tried to be gender neutral to avoid the “CEO’s are male, VP of HR are female” bias. But I failed and just used “he” throughout the post. Jason and I struggled a lot with this in our new book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist . We finally gave up and used “he” throughout. But we felt compelled to discuss this in the Preface. ...