YOUR Daily Star today commits to calling all female boffins “boffinesses” in the name of equality.
Our vow comes after a BBC Radio 2 broadcaster Mike Parry coined the phrase during a debate with Ray Mitchell, of the Institute of Physics.
He was on The Jeremy Vine Show to complain about how the word boffins was putting young people off getting into science.
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