Unfinished Business (2015)
“A handful of young male faculty members at Harvard (the roughly seventy-person department included only a few women at that point) were deliberately trying to change the gender messages they sent. So when, for example, my torts professor mentioned a judge, a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or any other profession, he would deliberately use the pronoun “she.” I jumped every time he did it. It just sounded so strange. I didn’t know a single woman doctor, judge, or engineer. As I used to tell my st...udents, I’m not that old, but as recently as the early 1980s a shift in pronoun opened up my world.
A decade earlier, the honorific “Ms.” (pronounced “Miz”), as opposed to “Miss” or “Mrs.,” had come into use. It may be hard to believe now, but the introduction of “Ms.” into the lexicon was a huge rallying cry for early feminists, led by the iconoclastic (and now iconic) magazine of the same name. “Miss” or “Mrs.” immediately identified a woman as married or unmarried, on the assumption that her status in that regard was the single most important piece of information anyone would want to know about her.MoreLess
A decade earlier, the honorific “Ms.” (pronounced “Miz”), as opposed to “Miss” or “Mrs.,” had come into use. It may be hard to believe now, but the introduction of “Ms.” into the lexicon was a huge rallying cry for early feminists, led by the iconoclastic (and now iconic) magazine of the same name. “Miss” or “Mrs.” immediately identified a woman as married or unmarried, on the assumption that her status in that regard was the single most important piece of information anyone would want to know about her.MoreLess
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