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.

[maninaskirt]

A termite walks into a bar and says, "is the bartender here?"

Ba-doom tish!

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

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

But waiter/waitress/wait staff has the same connotation really, the notion of "waiting on" someone.

[ColderThanAWitchsTitty]

Ooh Ooh and you lot mock us for being to prudish to call a bathroom a toilet!

[KateCroydon]

Back when I was at school my German teacher said that in Germany keeping the gender difference in job titles was seen as more progressive/feminist. The idea being that if you call women who act actors not actresses you're implicitly saying that the male form is the primary one, and the female is the variant. It is telling that I can't think of a case where only the female form survives, and that calling Richard Armitage an actress seems absurd whereas calling Judi Dench an actor is fine.

[TheScreamingNit]

We used to call our housemothers "housies," and our head of school was The Principal.
Oddly enough, my school was an all-girls private boarding school with Housies and Principals and Heads of (subject) whereas my brother went to a boys private boarding and had "housemasters," the Headmaster and Masters/Mistresses of (subject). I have no idea if that's got any bearing on anything but I always thought it was interesting.