What is the feminine chairman?

Answer 1

Masculine and feminine refer to grammatical gender, and there is no grammatical gender in the English noun. Certain words specifically denote male or female persons, but chairman is not one of them. The -man (pronounced mun) in chairman is the same as the -man in woman. It certainly does not denote a male person.

A female chairman is properly addressed as "Madame Chairman." There is a politically correct monstrosity with some currency among the ignorant, "chairwoman," but that word means "a woman who takes care of the chairs." Sometimes "Chair" is used alone, but again that is a genteelism, or a mistake made trying to avoid making a mistake.

English used to have grammatical gender, but it had nothing to do with physical gender. The word "wife" was a neuter noun, not a feminine, for example. Grammatical gender is in the form of the word, and not its meaning.

Answer 2

In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.

The noun for a male is a chairman; the noun for a female is chairwoman.

Some women do prefer chairwoman, however the common gender noun, chairperson, is increasing in use.

Answer 3

Chairwomen

Answer 4

Chairperson

Answer 5

Chairman