Adding pronouns to your email can give people confidence and clarity so they can talk to you the way you would like to be treated.
An email signature is a gender pronoun in the works, just another line in your signature that you can add besides your name, job title, and contact details.
Below common arrangements can be used:
- My pronouns are: She/her/hers
- My pronouns: she, her, hers and they, them, theirs
- Pronouns: he, him, his
- (they, them, theirs)
For example:
Sharron O’connor
Biology Teacher at Fuse School
Pronouns: she, her, hers
Why should we add pronouns to email signature?
Let us think it in this way, that even if it doesn’t matter to us but it matters others seeing the pronouns, it may give us the opportunity to do business with others with this simple change in email signature.
Let us work on the example where actually pronoun adding to email signature worked:
“Ritz also added their pronouns to their LinkedIn profile next to his name and encouraged his clients to do the same. One of his clients added “he/him” to his LinkedIn profile, and shortly thereafter, a university reached out to him to inquire about internship placements at his company”.
There are actually dozens of different sets of gender pronouns someone might use. Still, the three traditional ones remain the most common:
- He/him/his: used for someone who says they identify as male or masculine.
- She/her/hers: used for someone who says they identify as female or feminine.
- They/them/theirs: It is used for someone who doesn’t particularly identify with neither female nor male pronouns, these pronouns are generally regarded as gender-neutral and are used in the singular form.
Introduce Yourself using Gender Pronouns
Introducing with pronouns doesn’t make it very complicated. In a business setting, when you sit down for a meeting with someone new or if you’re at a conference, then you’d likely already find yourself introducing yourself by name and maybe even your position in your company. Adding your pronouns is just one extra step when you introduce yourself.
For example – “Hi, I’m Ronica and I’m a freelance writer. My pronouns are she/her.”
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