Manholes’ are now ‘maintenance holes’: Berkeley adopts gender neutral language in city code

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-manholes-maintenance-berkeley-adopts-gender-neutral-language-code-20190718-jl6dwfmay5aencapgnpychdvji-story.html

At long last, the city of Berkeley, Calif., shattered the glass manhole — ahem, “maintenance hole.”

The Berkeley city council voted on Tuesday night to update it’s municipal code with gender-neutral language. It passed unanimously on the first reading, Curbed SF reported.

And manhole is not the only term that’s been changed.

Man-made will now be “human-made,” “artificial,” or “manufactured.” Manpower will be referred to as “human effort.” Sororities and fraternities will now be called “collegiate Greek system residences.”