Dear Sir: No. “Dear Sir” no longer cuts the mustard as a salutation for a business letter, especially a business letter to the large bureaucracy with which I am trying to communicate. Business, of ...

I am often asked by other female academics whether—and how—they should respond to the “micro-inequities” that many of us face in our professional lives. Should we object to each and every sexist ...

Dear Abby: I’m in a quandary regarding the proper salutation to use in a letter to an organization when there is no specific person to whom to address it. When I learned to write business letters, I ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I have been unable to come up with an appropriate substitute for a general letter heading. In the past, “Dear Sirs” was often used, or “Dear Sirs/Madams,” but this is ...

Messages with the greeting ‘Dear Sirs’ are a daily frustration for women in Australia’s legal profession and corporate workforce. But changing workplace attitudes, and some new guidance from the ...

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