Willy Loman is not any extra, not less than in New York state law.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Thursday changing the phrase “salesman” with “salesperson” — the most recent in a sequence of strikes by Albany towards gender-neutral and different woke language.
“Jobs have no gender, but unfortunately, many of our state’s laws still use gendered language when discussing professions that are practiced by people of all genders,” state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Nassau) mentioned of the invoice she sponsored with Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell (D-Manhattan).
In addition to changing the phrase “salesman,” which a abstract of the measure deems “antiquated,” the brand new law replaces situations of “his” or “her” with “their” in related statutes affecting the actual property business.
“We want our workplaces to reflect the diversity of New York, and the best way to achieve that goal is by making sure all realtors feel that they belong and the profession is accessible,” O’Donnell mentioned in an announcement.
Thursday’s invoice signing is the most recent instance of New York state authorities’s nomenclature kick.
Another bill – sponsored by state Sen. Samra Brouk (D-Rochester) and Carrie Woerner (D-Saratoga) — permitted by Hochul Wednesday removes gendered references to office-holders in native legislative our bodies — like “councilman” — in favor of phrases like “council member.”
Other new legal guidelines scrap the usage of the phrases “mentally retarded” and “inmate” in favor of “developmentally disabled” and “incarcerated person.”
“There is no place for the ‘R’ word in our vocabulary and certainly not in our laws,” state Sen. Roxanne Persaud mentioned in an announcement celebrating enactment of the previous law.
Not everybody has been on board with the modifications.
“Welcome to Democrat-controlled New York … Where the ‘incarcerated individuals’ are running the asylum,” Michael Fraser, a spokesman for Republican Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay, quipped earlier this month.
Thursday’s law, which overwhelmingly handed the Assembly and state Senate, was much less controversial.
“I’m fine with this,” tweeted upstate radio host Doug Goudie earlier than including: “‘Inmate’ being changed to ‘incarcerated individual’ however is still ludicrous.”
