It’s not entirely new. As late as the mid-20th century, the term “female” was considered vaguely dehumanizing when applied to women even as an adjective. Here’s

It’s not entirely new. As late as the mid-20th century, the term “female” was considered vaguely dehumanizing when applied to women even as an adjective. Here’s a Google Ngram graph showing changes in usage over time: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=female+lawyer%2Cwoman+lawyer&year_start=1920&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=female+lawyer%...