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Ask Curbed: Gender-Neutral on the Way In

It wasn't so hard, back in the day, to start saying "firefighter" instead of "fireman," but this one still confuddles the best of us:

If the doorman is now a door woman, should this person still be referrred to as a doorman or do we need to create a new category of "doorwoman" or "doorlady." A man I'm seeing lives in a Trump Building with a lady working the door, and we're both a bit befuddled as to what to call her.
Who knew the battle for gender equality would be fought on DJT's doorstep?