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Listeners slam ‘woke’ BBC R4’s Today programme for replacing the word fishermen with ‘fisherpeople’ – despite women making up just 2.7% of trawler crews Europe editor Katya Adler used the gender neutral description on air yesterday  Critics argued that people working on trawlers are overwhelmingly men  Ashley Mullenger, who calls herself the ‘female fisherman’, joined … Read more

Listeners slam ‘woke’ BBC R4’s Today programme for replacing the word fishermen with ‘fisherpeople’ – despite women making up just 2.7% of trawler crews Europe editor Katya Adler used the gender neutral description on air yesterday  Critics argued that people working on trawlers are overwhelmingly men  Ashley Mullenger, who calls herself the ‘female fisherman’, joined … Read more