Take the tour ×  This question already has an answer here:  I
often come across the use of "she" not as an gender neutral
pronoun as such but as the pronoun of choice when the gender is
unknown. This is particularly common in scientific/technical
documents but not exclusive to them. The following are four of
the first google hits when searching for "the user can" "if
she":    • Example 1:      The user can type anything to
identify the file. When coming back to the data she would expect
to see exactly the same string she typed in.    • Example 2:
In this page the user can add a new entity, if she follows the
link labelled Add entity.    • Example 3:      To continue with
our ergonomic program, imagine that you would really like the
user to sit down and your program would continue only once she
answers that she is sitting down, you can use the do…while
statement to wait for the user to sit down;    • Example 4:
The user can program the alarm to go off at a particular time --
for example, the user can