Word: nonsexist
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DIED. CASEY MILLER, 77, advocate of nonsexist language and coauthor of Words and Women (1976), who helped inspire changes to the written and spoken word, including the use of chairperson; of lung disease; in East Haddam, Connecticut...
...DOES IT GO? by Margaret Miller (Greenwillow; $14). Where does Justin put his toothbrush? Through the apple? On the teddy bear? No, he puts it in his mouth! More instructions follow, about the placement of books, bicycles, pillows and dolls. The text tries a little too hard to be nonsexist, but the photographs are pleasing and the lessons are painless...
...letters plus a hyphen, Sammataro-Hutchins is a bit much. Still, time has not been kind either to the Floyd-Bells, Church-Smiths and other conscientiously nonsexist, nonconformist couples who embraced hyphenation in the '70s as a banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before...
...nonsexist Bible is long overdue. When we are finished with the Bible, we should turn our efforts toward other literature, like Little People and Moby Dick and Jane...
...began writing a working-woman column for the Ladies' Home Journal, helped start the National Women's Political Caucus and worked on the launching of Ms. Assigned by the magazine to do an article on nonsexist child raising, she noticed herself giving a basketball to her infant son instead of the athletic girls, and heard David, now an enlightened twelve, announce: "When Daddy isn't home I'm in charge because then I'm the man of the house...