Oh dear! Today's front page story in the Sunday Times about a British professor leading a crusade against human trafficking was, to say the least, infelicitous:
Grandmother! Is that the way to describe Margaret Archer, a distinguished sociologist who heads the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences?
I note that the copy also referred to her as a grandmother and an inside story on "the most senior woman in the Vatican" repeated the sexist (and ageist) description.
As a commenter to the paper's website remarked: "I wonder whether a 71-year-old man with similar qualifications would be headlined as a grandfather."
