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Gender pronouns - using them or not?

Nina Cairns

Morning all - I wondered what the trend is with regards to changing employee handbooks, policies and /or contracts from using gender pronouns?  We are startup organisation and have just embarked on defining our D&I strategy,. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks 

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  • There are surprisingly few occasions when you *have* to use a gendered pronoun in this type of writing. For example, instead of writing "An employee is expected to bring his/her issued laptop...", you can write "Employees are expected to bring their issued laptop..."

    Where you cannot avoid using a gendered pronoun it is now increasingly convention to use "them/their" in singular neuter form as well as plural. It seems a little awkward in this transition period, I know, but we'll all get used to it soon enough.
  • in reply to Robey
    In my handbook/policies/forms etc I've used the example that Robey has given and it seems to work well for us.
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