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 --- 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 --- fair play (not sportsmanship), skill (not craftsmanship), etc. \b(?:brink|crafts|draughts|horse|pen|sea|show|sports|works)manship\b --- fair (not sportsmanlike) \b(?:|un)sportsmanlike\b --- humankind \b(mankind)\b hu\1 artificial (not man-made) \bman-made\b artificial working hours (not manhours), etc. \bman(?:hours|hunt|power)\b ---