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Mind your language

Is ‘female’ still an insult?

Students seem not to think so

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

‘More deadly than the male,’ said my husband archly. He was knowingly quoting Kipling, though I don’t know why he should, since Kipling was not fashionable when he was young.

His cue was a remark he overheard from an academic former colleague puzzled by the frequency of female in student essays, where woman might have been expected.

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