Men vs Women

Once again the Google Ngram Viewer shows us something remarkable about the words we've used in publications. In British English, for much of the 20th century, men are refered to around 4 times as much as women. Then in World War II, this drops to a 3-times difference. From 1970, there has been a steady decline in the use of men, and an increase in uses of women, until the latter outstripped men in the 1980s. To the present day, women tracks consistently at 25% more frequent that men.