A top U.S. government watchdog issued a memo urging employees to not use gendered language, resulting in criticism from conservatives.
The leaked memos from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), obtained by The Daily Mail , instruct employees to not use male and female terms in the workplace.
The chief diversity management officer of the GAO, which examines federal government spending, had the memo issued in October 2022, which was posted on the agency’s intranet.
The memo is a “style guide” to prevent the use of “non-inclusive terminology,” urging the GAO’s 3,100 employees to avoid “wording that diminishes anyone’s dignity,” cited The Daily Mail.“Because meaning and connotations can change rapidly, we should not rely solely on precedent (GAO or otherwise) but should consider consulting early in an engagement with individuals and groups who are within scope of the work,” according to the memo, which recommends using alternative words that are not gendered. These […]
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