Elena is a manager at a construction supply company. She is writing a memo to her sales team in preparation for a major sales initiative. Look at this sentence from her memo: Every salesman should make sure he is carrying the client portfolio on his smartphone. How should Elena rewrite this sentence to avoid using stereotypes in her memo?

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Elena is a manager at a construction supply company. She is writing a memo to her sales team in preparation for a major sales initiative. Look at this sentence from her memo: Every salesman should make sure he is carrying the client portfolio on his smartphone. How should Elena rewrite this sentence to avoid using stereotypes in her memo?

A. Every salesperson should make sure the client portfolio is on his smartphone.  B. Every salesman should make sure the client portfolio is on his or her smartphone.  C. Every salesperson should make sure the client portfolio is on his or her smartphone.  D. Every saleswoman should make sure the client portfolio is on her smartphone.

C. Every salesperson should make sure the client portfolio is on his or her smartphone.  

Explanation:

It is important that Elena avoid gender stereotypes in her memo, using words of a neutral nature and avoiding articles that show genres such as "his", "he" "she" and "her". This is because women have participated more actively in the labor market and in the consumer class, so the use of the words "he is" can cause gender stereotypes. Thus, the best sentence that can replace the sentence written by Elena in the memo is represented in the alternative "C".

1. My

2. We, our

3. His

4. Her

5. Us, their

Explanation:

I just searched some key words up to see if they were pronouns, they usually are just words that determine a person. Hope this helps! Comment if you are still confused!