Are there many `gendered` job names left?

[DropYourSword]

Was thinking recently about this and the pointlessness of defining whether the worker is male or female.

Doctor, pilot, teacher, nurse etc aren't gendered (although I do appreciate that some people may assume the workers gender). I know we use headteacher now instead of headmistress / headmaster and stewardess is now flight attendant etc.

The only thing I can think of is waiter and waitress. I wad wondering if there were moreand what the suggestion would be for renaming it.

The masculine of housemistress is housemaster.

yes, the question is what could be a gender-neutral term. Hm, looking at synonyms for 'master', how about house-commandant?

But I don't get how the term nursery nurse is gendered?

That had already been answered. It's 'Houseparent'. Although it isn't universally used. Largely because it implies the job is shared between husband and wife- which is the case in some schools but not most.

How about the job "Nanny"? Male ones often get called "Mannies", but It sounds [vomit]. (We NEED that smiley!)

Only idiots say manny. Nanny isn't gendered is it? If you arent a goat?

Camera operator for cameraman?

Have noticed German job ads in English tend to have (M/F) in brackets after the job title - so I guess that's how they deal with gendered job titles.

I think Nanny is gendered- you wouldn't call a male grandparent Nanny would you?

I agree though, there isn't an appropriate masculine/gender neutral alternative.

I don't think of grandparent nanny as the same as nanny-nanny though. Are the meant to be?

I would call a male professional nanny nanny. Why wouldn't you ?

I had a conversation with one of my German colleagues a while back about gendered job names in German, and I have a vague memory he said something about there being some group trying to bring in gender neutral names. Only it was ages back, and he's not currently showing online, and I'll probably have forgotten by tomorrow.

There has been some research, I think in Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, but it may have been something else - anyway they looked at the adjectives associated with certain gendered words in different language. So bridge is feminine in German, but masculine in Spanish - and they found that the adjectives associated with a bridge do seem to be gendered, whether it focusses on elegant arches or strong support and so on. (It's better explained in the book than my ramblings here...)

Barmaid and barman. Bartender hasn't really caught on here.

Or landlady and landlord. "Licensee"?

Landlady/Landlord for renting houses, though.

Soupstained I think that's more to do with the fact that you are allowed to hire one gender or the other although most jobs are advertised for both.

When I was a landlord I was always a landlord despite girly status.
A friend from South Africa was telling me he worked as a 'Waitron' when he was at uni, and I was like, 'um, what?', but that's apparently what they use instead of waiter/waitress! They're all Waitrons. I thought it sounded like a serving robot

I'm a ward sister but my male counterpart is a charge nurse.

They're all Waitrons. I thought it sounded like a serving robot

Ah, but "robots" in SA are what we call "traffic lights"...

I've always thought of my landlord as a landlord to, despite her being female!

I think waitron sounds very robotty, I like host though. Never thought about ward sisters...surely whether male or female you could be called charge nurses.

At my work, all the Ward Sisters are now known as Charge Nurse. A former colleague, a male charge nurse, said that when he worked in Australia that all the nurses in charge were known as Sister, even him!

I always call the person carry the post a postie. Maybe it's just me.

DC's school have house masters and mistresses and the head is most definitely the headmaster

I'm not sure "server" for waiting staff would be acceptable in the UK - we don't like to think of anyone in terms of serving another even when that is precisely what is happening

I was thinking that platinum. It's too close to servant and servitude for me!

No to "Waitron". That's not just a robot. It's a type of evil robot that would invade Earth and try to kill Doctor Who.