Berkeley drops words like ‘manpower’ in push to be inclusive

Berkeley, Calif. • There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into “maintenance holes” instead.Nothing will be manmade in the liberal city but “human-made.” And students at the University of California, Berkeley, will join “collegiate Greek system residences” rather than fraternities and sororities.Berkeley leaders voted unanimously this week to replace about 40 gender-specific words in the city code with gender-neutral term