When the gender is not specified, a "doctor," "engineer," "architect," "accountant," "dentist," "nutritionist," "biologist," or "scientist" is presumed to be male, and the gender bias invariably shows up in male-specific sentence constructions such as this one: "A good doctor is always true to his noble calling." We can see that it doesn't help that English happens not to have a gender-neutral, singular pronoun for people in general. Still, such sentences can usually be made gender-neutral by simply making the noun plurala process that also conveniently does away with the pesky male pronoun "his": "Good doctors are always true to their noble
When the gender is not specified, a "doctor," "engineer," "architect," "accountant," "dentist," "nutritionist," "biologist," or "scientist" is presumed to be male, and the gender bias invariably shows up in male-specific sentence constructions such as this one: "A good doctor is always true to his noble calling." We can see that it doesn't help that English happens not to have a gender-neutral, singular pronoun for people in general. Still, such sentences can usually be made gender-neutral by simply making the noun plurala process that also conveniently does away with the pesky male pronoun "his": "Good doctors are always true to their noble