Chairperson

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For the Rival Schools character, please see Chairperson (Rival Schools). For other uses of the term chair, please see chair (disambiguation). Please see also Chairman.

The terms, chairperson is a typical example of a non-sexist neologism that was invented to replace the conventional chairman, used to describe the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. Chair and chairwoman may also be used in similar context depending on gender.

While chairperson dates from the 1970s, the use of chair (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) to refer to being in charge of a meeting, as in "to chair a meeting", dates from as early as 1658.

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