diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
index 6d0aaa4587..f0f03a29b2 100644
--- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
@@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal</programlisting>
 
     <para>Journal files are, by default, owned and readable by the
     <literal>systemd-journal</literal> system group but are not
-    writable. Adding a user to this group thus enables her/him to read
+    writable. Adding a user to this group thus enables them to read
     the journal files.</para>
 
-    <para>By default, each logged in user will get her/his own set of
+    <para>By default, each logged in user will get their own set of
     journal files in <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. These
     files will not be owned by the user, however, in order to avoid
     that the user can write to them directly. Instead, file system
diff --git a/man/systemd.generator.xml b/man/systemd.generator.xml
index 8a7a11a862..5007563e06 100644
--- a/man/systemd.generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.generator.xml
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
       <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-fstab-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       converts <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> into native mount units. It uses
       argv[1] as location to place the generated unit files in order to allow the
-      user to override <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> with her own native unit
+      user to override <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> with their own native unit
       files, but also to ensure that <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> overrides any
       vendor default from <filename>/usr</filename>.</para>