Work Etiquette Question

[shootingstar]

Here is something from..no less than the American Bar Assoc. I couldn't find anything on gal /girl word use.

http://www.abanet.org/media/youraba/...article12.html

Yes, +1 to previous posters that old term of gal is just wrong in the workplace for any adult woman.

Where I work, it is the first place where I've heard it way more often than previous organizations...in some previous places, I never heard it.

The employee who works beside me and she reports to me, used it several times in conversation on referring to other women employees in our organization. I stopped her gently: "Aren't they women? Aren't you a woman? You're a mother of 2 grown boys."

I hate to say this ...but these women who use "girls", "gals" alot among themselves were full-time moms for at least a decade before they returned to work. Any woman really needs to acculturate herself when she returns to the workplace.

And my boss initially used girl in his conversation when he joined our organization..it was a carryover probably from overseas where among the ex-patriate community in the firm that I work for, it's predominantly ...male engineers who land the plum international engineering assignments worldwide.

Then few months later, I noticed he was dropping use of this word. Good. He's remembering his Canadian roots. And he's 10 yrs. younger than I...if that indicates how easy it is for younger males and females to go backwards in their workplace terminology.

It grates me on the in-chick use of "girl" "gal" in workplace ..because where I work, only 2 out of 15 managers are female (I'm one of them)...in an organization of over 200 employees with additonal 300 from unionized trades. It is workplace that is over 80% male.