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A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. The use of the gender-neutral term Chairperson, or simply Chair, to avoid potential sexist assumptions with use of the term Chairman has been championed by social change since the late 1970s (See Sapir–Whorf hypothesis). The non gender neutral title of Chairwoman is sometimes used if the incumbent is female. The use of chair (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) as a verb (e.g.,... full article at wikipedia

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Created by Metaweb Oct 23, 2006
Last edited by mbaker about 6 hours ago
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