Chairman

A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. The use of the gender-neutral term Chairperson, or simply Chair, to avoid potential sexist assumptions with use of the term Chairman has been championed by social change since the late 1970s (See Sapir￢ﾀﾓWhorf hypothesis). The non gender neutral title of Chairwoman is sometimes used if the incumbent is female. The use of chair (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) as a verb (e.g.,"to chair [a.