I've found it interesting how my colleagues refer to the gender of hypothetical engineers. One principal engineer that I work with always uses "Suzie" in examples; "If Suzie is ..., she ...". Many others simply use the pronoun "he/him". ("When a manger..., he should ...").

I'm not sure if the principal engineer chooses "Suzie" deliberately because of her gender, but as a female engineer I really respect him for it and appreciate it anyway. Conversely, while I don't find it that big of a deal, I do lose a bit of respect for the speaker when I notice them only using "he/him".

Something to consider.