What are your thoughts on the gendered titles in most trusts?

I currently work in a community trust where the titles are like team lead, clinical team lead, clinical service lead.

This is the same regardless of the persons job role, their profession etc. So it’s the same for community hospital nurses, district nurses, physios etc. Band 5 Nurses are called staff nurse or practitioner depending on job role.

In the acute hospital trust, they still use titles like sister, junior sister, matron etc. Men may be called charge nurse, ward manager or lead nurse. I guess women can call themselves those things but that won’t stop the majority of people referring to them as the sister.

It’s just my opinion, but I think that it’s very outdated and has no place in the modern era, as it also perpetuates that nursing should be for women, and can contribute further to men not wanting to join, an increase in sexism etc. Obviously there’s more important things to worry about in nursing, such as pay, better work conditions, safe staffing etc, so it’s a very minor thing. So just a minor rant. I suppose though that it’s a cultural thing that people might want to keep as they find it interesting.