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Political correctness

Avoid feminised nouns

Avoid something-man nouns

Avoid gender assumptive language

Gender neutral pronouns

Using gendered pronouns

Using gender neutral pronouns

Gender neutral names of people

Using he she

Racism homophobia religion sexism

Political correctness gone too far

Using ‘he/she’

In general, using ‘he/she’ in an essay isn’t really a good thing to do, especially if you have to use it more than once. Where it is useful is when you’re writing a form or survey for people to fill out.

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