Gender
author, mayor, manager, poet
\b((?:auth|may)or|manager|poet)ess\b
\1
actor, sculptor
\b(act|sculpt)ress\b
\1or
flight attendant (not stewardess)
\bstewardesse?(s?)\b
flight attendant\1
phrases to avoid
\b(?:best man for the job|man in the street|man to man|no man's land|one[- ]man show|every man for himself)\b
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chair (not chairman), firefighter (not fireman), etc.
\b(?:air(?:|craft)|anchor|bar|boat|business|chair|congress|council|door|dust|Dutch|English|French|fire|fresh|lay|mail|middle|militia|milk|news(?:|paper)|police|post|press|spokes|Ulster|weather)m[ae]n\b
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fair play (not sportsmanship), skill (not craftsmanship), etc.
\b(?:brink|crafts|draughts|horse|pen|sea|show|sports|works)manship\b
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fair (not sportsmanlike)
\b(?:|un)sportsmanlike\b
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humankind
\b(mankind)\b
hu\1
artificial (not man-made)
\bman-made\b
artificial
working hours (not manhours), etc.
\bman(?:hours|hunt|power)\b
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