Casey Geddes Miller (February 26, 1919 – January 5, 1997) was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language.
She served as a foster parent for dozens of children and donated generously to Smith College, Planned Parenthood, and NAACP.
Miller formed a professional editing partnership with Kate Swift, the director of the news bureau of the Yale University's School of Medicine, in 1970.
This led to Miller and Swift to wage what The New York Times would later call "a forceful campaign against what many considered sexist language.
"[5] After this realization, Miller and Swift began to explore and promote awareness of the ways in which the English language is gender biased towards men.
[5] Senator Chris Dodd later said that this handbook is "still considered the standard reference guide on how to correctly utilize language in order to properly address and speak of women.
"[9] Because of their efforts, the Hartford Courant later titled Miller and Swift as "leaders in the women's movement of the 1970s" and a duo who "took on the pronoun he [...] along with the rest of what they and other feminists considered male-biased language in countless articles and speeches as well as in their books.
"[8] Eventually people became aware of the "implicit discrimination in" the English language and "writing and speaking without using masculine-gender words" began to catch on.