[Dcouncil] Reading Observation

[Bruce Ullman]

Interesting.  I wonder if it's because most of the editors/contributors are female?

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Davenport" <jdaven at jlab.org>
To: dcouncil at jlab.org
Sent: Friday, January 3, 2014 2:16:31 PM
Subject: [Dcouncil] Reading Observation

Happy New Year fellow council members,

I did some light reading during our holiday shutdown/vacation period from the Lab. I noticed a common trend in all the "mommy & baby" type magazines my wife has subscribed to since our son was born. When an article talks about a baby, the qualifiers "her" or "she" are used the majority of the time when not using the unisex term Baby. The same is also true when referring to an individual's pediatrician. This is also true in the babycenter.com progess emails I get about my son's progression as a human in physiological and behavioral development.

Is this how women feel the other 99.9% of the time when reading material that should stay non-gender specific.

I apologize if this isn't deemed D&I Council appropriate topic.
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