Gender issues at the Los Angeles Times:
Gender: The headline for a Feb. 27 letter to the editor on health insurance rates, “It makes him sick,” referred to writer Jaime Marshall as a man. Marshall is a woman.
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LA Times corrects gender confusion in letter to editor
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