Uk companies adopt 'Ms' as the default when gathering personal data about women

All men are identified as Mr, regardless of marital status. Yet women are still defined as Mrs or Miss. The use of Ms is not widespread and therefore comes with its own connotations such as divorced, widowed, spinster etc. Companies do not need to know a woman's marital status and for as long as women are defined by this, we cannot achieve gender equality. If Ms was the default and was adopted by the majority it would remove any stigma attached to it and reduce inequality and unconscious bias.