Just like they try to not call them the "Lady Buffs" anymore.
And my pick, Meryl Streep, although her Thatcher voice slips into Julia Child a little too often.
I really don't understand why Actress fell out of favor. Or why Steward/Stewardess did.
I know Steward to me implies someone serving you aboard a luxury ship, much better than flight attendant. Really? The prefer to be called like someone who attends a flight.
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The same applies to the archaic terms Waiter and Waitress - all are known now as Servers. I don't see a need to distinguish male from female when it comes to a job description/position but heck - who cares anyway?
norma wrote: The same applies to the archaic terms Waiter and Waitress - all are known now as Servers. I don't see a need to distinguish male from female when it comes to a job description/position but heck - who cares anyway?
It could be because, not so very long ago, and possibly still for all I know, when consultants came in to set up pay grade systems, they habitually set lower pay ranges for jobs identified as "female". In a place I worked in the 90s, there were women and men doing the same type of jobs but the men had fancier titles. Although both did pretty much the same (semi-technical) work, the consultants came in and looked at the women's titles and classified them as "administrative" and the men's as "technical" and gave the men higher salaries. The consultants didn't even know the gender of the people filling these jobs, they just went off the titles. The company had been doing it that way for years. If they hired a woman, she had one title and a male doing pretty much the same work, another. I left that job partly in digust over this (although I wasn't affected personally) because management refused to rectify it.
I am seeing 'actress' in most of the printed media reports today. If you are talking about last night's SAG awards, they (SAG) have been listing 'female actors' since the SAG ceremonies started in 1994. I don't think there is anything about it tied to political correctness.
photo-fish wrote: I am seeing 'actress' in most of the printed media reports today. If you are talking about last night's SAG awards, they (SAG) have been listing 'female actors' since the SAG ceremonies started in 1994. I don't think there is anything about it tied to political correctness.
Could be because they are the Screen Actors Guild? Want the title ot be inclusive so they don't exclude the females.
Is it sexist to have the acting prizes split up between men and women? Would men ever win Oscars if they had to compete against Meryl Streep every year?
Maybe it would be more fair to do it by age? 18-under, 19-34, and 35-over.
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