Hospital admission and the start of benzodiazepine use.

often than women, may contribute to inequalities of opportunity between the sexes. "It is through language that we [women] come to know our subordinate place in the world."2 Sexism is deeply embedded in the English language, and various ways of avoiding sex biased writing have been suggested.' These have ranged from the use of plural pronouns in the singular and the avoidance of words containing "man" to the creation and use of neologisms such as "himorher." None of the solutions is perfect; which is optimal depends on the context.5 By choosing not to use any of the options we merely perpetuate an imprecise and potentially offensive usage.