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No, we don't. I am a woman and I do not use those terms interchangeably. Neither do any of the other professional women I know. My female friends are called 't
by in_cahoots 10y ago
No, we don't. I am a woman and I do not use those terms interchangeably. Neither do any of the other professional women I know.
My female friends are called 'the girls' as a group. But at work it's either 'woman', 'gals', or 'guys'. I would never call a coworker girl unless she referred to herself that way, and I haven't heard my male or female coworkers do it either. At work calling an adult a 'girl' brings up immediate connotations of "the girls in secretary" from an earlier era, just as 'boy' brings up unpleasant racial connotations from that same era.