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Agreed, but adding that in Dutch a shift was even made to always designate with the male form, regardless of gender. So a "directrice" (Dutch, which would mean something like "directress" in English, a female director) then overnight became a "directeur" ("director"), with no sex change.

Myself, I saw the familiar m/f designations here, and wondered whether that is still desirable, given the emerging use of additional designations?