[darkstar999]

The fact that we have to worry about womens' marital status when addressing them is sad.

[jronald]

I'm off topic here, but I think this is more an artifact than common place anymore, right? While Mrs and Miss still exist, I've never seen them anywhere aside from formal invitations. (except my third grade teacher who required 'Mrs.', but that was almost 20 years ago)

[jrochkind1]

I hadn't seen "Miss" in a while, until I saw it in the OP. Very unprofessional, yes.

[dandrews]

darkstar999, read Douglas Hofstadter's "A Person Paper on Purity in Language", his clever 30-y-o essay on sexism in writing.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html