Timeline for Mistook new faculty member to be a student, how big a faux pas is it?
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| Feb 20, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | user3644640 | @NajibIdrissi Depends. quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/woman-versus-female-0 By quick googling it also seems that some radical feminist groups are advocating the use of woman, because they claim that nobody would use word male, which is rubbish. As a non-native English speaker myself, I tend to use whichever sounds better to my ear and whatever comes to my mind. In that sentence woman sounds awkward to me because both "woman" and "young" has "-ou-" between them. Also there is age differentiation to girls and woman; female being age independent. OP uses word female. Etc. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 13:27 | comment | added | user9646 | I'm not a native English speaker, but from what I've gathered calling a woman a "female" ranges from weird to insulting. | |
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| Feb 17, 2017 at 12:08 | history | answered | user3644640 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |