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A term like "teacher" is often understood to mean a female person. Indeed, writers have often used feminine pronouns in a sentence using the unmarked term. This is, of course, not to imply that men cannot be teachers. It merely reflects the stereotype which ''teacher'' invokes. "Nurse" even more strongly implies a woman, so much so that the term "male nurse" must be used to indicate a man. No one says "female nurse".
A term like "teacher" is often understood to mean a female person. Indeed, writers have often used feminine pronouns in a sentence using the unmarked term. This is, of course, not to imply that men cannot be teachers. It merely reflects the stereotype which ''teacher'' invokes. "Nurse" even more strongly implies a woman, so much so that the term "male nurse" must be used to indicate a man. No one says "female nurse".
A vehicle like a bus (short for "omnibus") meant a horse-drawn carriage in the 1860s. The unmarked term could hardly refer to anything else, as only trains had a powerful enough engine to pull cars. A "bus" nowadays can only be an [[automobile]]. Likewise, a "car" would be part of a chariot or (later in history) a train. Now the unmarked term refers to an [[automobile]] other than a bus or truck. Only in context of rail travel or elevators would "car" mean anything else.