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by asmosoinio 1989 days ago
What does this mean in practice? Add what?

Disclaimer: Not from US, not English speaking natively...

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Email signatures would change from being

Bob Jenkins - Cloud Services Developer

to

Bob Jenkins (she/her) - Cloud Services Developer

This means that people writing about Bob don't assume that Bob is a particular gender, and helps them use the correct gender.

It's a small effort to increase politeness.

So "she/her" and not traditional "Mrs."? Because the latter does not fit many people these days?

Note edit: my native tongue Finnish doesn't even have gendered he/she. Quite an uncommon thing in languages.