Madam Chairman

Is she the chairperson or chairman? Her colleagues in State Bank of India (SBI) were confused, but Arundhati Bhattacharya wasn't. Just days after she took over as chairman of the country's largest bank, her office and the company's intranet got several emails referring to her as chairperson. The mid-management thought that was the right way to go but wasn't sure whether it would pass muster in official documents since many rules apparently needed to be changed if the occupant of SBI's corner office had to be called chairperson. Bhattacharya, however, thought it's much ado about nothing and settled the matter by sending out a communication recently saying she would prefer to be called the chairman.