Dear Editor,I read with interest your recent publication by Rajput et al.,[1] in particular where the authors state “However, Kearsley in his correspondence in Anesthesia raised concerns regarding safety of the staff and patient with respect to the use of these boxes.” As the author of that correspondence,[2] the sentence should in fact read “However, Kearsley in her correspondence in Anaesthesia raised concerns regarding safety of the staff and patient with respect to the use of these boxes.”Although I believe this to be a genuine mistake on behalf of the authors and the editorial board, it does serve to highlight the unconscious gender bias faced by women in academia. Many journals, including Anaesthesia, do not include the author's first names in their journals; however, there is the opportunity to correspond with the author via the email or Twitter handle provided to clarify such queries. In the event of being unable to do so, and there is a requirement to use a pronoun in a sentence, the use of a nongendered pronoun should be favored in place of incorrectly assuming the author's gender.I am an editor of the journal Anaesthesia Reports and as a positive point from this we have now revised our author guidelines relating to the use of pronouns when the gender of the author is unknown.[3] I hope this is something the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology will consider too.