In an article that gives general work advice, I've seen the following sentence
Don’t take your complaint to your boss when she’s running between meetings ...
There is no context that states the gender of the boss, the author however has chosen to use she to refer to boss. Is the author here implicating that boss is feminine? Or does this have to do with the gender of the word boss?
The word "boss" has no gender. Presumably, in past years, such advice would have used the pronoun "he", using the convention that "he" could (in theory) refer to either gender. But nowadays that convention is deprecated. So this author just wrote "she" for the generic boss. Other writers may alternate "he" and "she" for their bosses, or use the "singular they", or make other adjustments.
