Anyone in HR who has written a help wanted ad or a policy document knows how to make them gender neutral. You’d never use “men” or a masculine pronoun.
Along those lines, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good has won her battle in Atlanta. Road crew signs will no longer say “Men at Work” or “Men Working Ahead.”
The Atlanta Public Works Commissioner has agreed with Good’s request to make the signs gender neutral.
From now on, they’ll say, “Workers Ahead.”
Public Works is replacing 50 signs. It costs $22 to cover old signs and $144 for a new one.
Good, founding editor of PINK magazine, a publication for professional women, started her campaign by painting “wo” in front of “men” on two road signs. Police visited her to ask about her sign painting.
Good expects to extend her campaign to other places where the signs still insist that only men are working.
