Inclusive Language

• According to Administrative Memorandum 85-2, "As an equal opportunity institution, Wright State University shall refer to and portray all persons in nondiscriminatory ways."
  
  The task force assembled guidelines for the implementation of inclusive language, and the following suggestions were taken from those guidelines.
  
  

  Exclusive Terms	Alternative Terms
  common man	ordinary person
  layman	average citizen, lay person, the nonspecialist, nonprofessional
  "man" a project	staff a project, hire personnel, employ staff
  man hours	worker hours, work hours, labor hours, staff hours, personnel hours
  man/mankind	humanity, human beings, human race, people, persons, individuals, men and women, humankind, all of us, society
  man-made	manufactured, simulated, hand-built, hand-made, machine-made, synthetic, artificial, constructed
  manpower	work force, human power, human energy, personnel, labor, staff, staff power
  spokesman	spokesperson, official, representative
  chairman	chair (note: "chairman" is used when an off-campus organization, such as the U.S. Congress, uses that term as an official title within its organization)
  woman doctor	doctor

• If you are using the formal title of the act, refer to it as the Workmen's Compensation Act. If referring to it generically, refer to it as workers' compensation.
  
  

  Because of the accident, Joe was able to collect workers' compensation.
  According to the Workmen's Compensation Act, people who are injured at work can receive some financial compensation while unable to work.