Women's Rights & Issues
Related: About this forumShould First Lady be capitalized? So we have Dr. Jill Biden. Most people cannot be bothered with
her title (and I refuse to capitalize any qop's name or title, but that is just me.). So I go to google, and find conflicting style manual answers, including the one from the very traditionalist ?White House museum, which says no, unless followed by name. Then ?I found the answer from DRM about everything (sorry, my computer will not let me link, or copy and paste), which says that lack of capitalization of First Lady is basically a sexist holdover.
So, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden it is.
torius
(1,652 posts)or a U.S. one (esp. in U.S. publications style manuals) but not for the general term. Certainly as a title before a name it should be. President is like that too. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden is (shocker) First Lady. Joe is President Biden. Biden is President. But, you might use lower case as a general term, such as a first lady or first gentleman is the spouse of a president in general.
brewens
(15,359 posts)a formal title. That may have changed.
niyad
(119,909 posts)Lettuce Be
(2,339 posts)if merely referring to her but not saying her name, the first lady. How often would one refer to the first lady without saying her name though? Not often. If in doubt, can't go wrong with always capitalizing.