Name: No written order yet on how to address female officers, sir or madam
Uploaded: 2025-08-12T03:30:01Z
Description: How should female government officers be addressed – sir or madam? What does the law say? Will the long-standing practice in educational institutions, administration and the corporate world come to an end? When did it begin, and what are the global norms?

An Israeli emergency service officer walks past the debris of building at the scene of a missile attack near Bet Shemesh, some 30 kilometres west of Jerusalem on 1 March 2026. A barrage of missiles launched from Iran killed at least six people in the central Israel city of Bet Shemesh on 1 March Israel's first responders agency, Magen David Adom (MDA) said, the day after the US and Israel attacked Iran and assassinated its supreme leader.

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No written order yet on how to address female officers, sir or madam

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