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￢ﾀﾓWhorf hypothesis).
The non gender neutral title of Chairwoman is sometimes used if the incumbent is female.
The use of chair (according t...
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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￢ﾀﾓ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.,"to chair [a meeting]" to describe being in charge of a meeting) dates from as early as 1658.
In the case of companies and similarly-organised bodies, there are generally two types of Chairmen: non-executive and executive.
A non-executive Chairman will sit on and chair the main board of a company and be a part-time officer who usually provides support and advice to a Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This position usually entails fulfilling a similar function on a number of ancillary board...
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