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This sexist nonsense again. Facty thread time 
1/12? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/04/tokyo-2020-chief-pressed-to-resign-after-saying-women-talked-too-much-at-meetings
1/12? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/04/tokyo-2020-chief-pressed-to-resign-after-saying-women-talked-too-much-at-meetings
There's a popular belief that women talk more than men, but it's a myth with no good evidence to support it.
Studies tend to show that women and men talk roughly the same amount – or, if anything, men talk more 2/12
Studies tend to show that women and men talk roughly the same amount – or, if anything, men talk more 2/12
In formal, mixed-gender discussions like meetings, men generally talk more often, talk for longer, and interrupt more than women 3/12 https://time.com/4837536/do-women-really-talk-more/
A study of more casual conversation found no indication that women talk more: they did more turn-taking, but their turns were shorter.
Men, despite the claim in "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus", backchannelled as much as women 4/12
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/FrancesNonverbal.pdf
Men, despite the claim in "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus", backchannelled as much as women 4/12
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/FrancesNonverbal.pdf
When people prop up the factoid with figures, they often say women talk 2–3 times as much as men. Mark Liberman's survey found claims of 7,000–50,000 words a day for women, 2,000–25,000 for men.
These numbers have zero discernible basis in fact 5/12 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003420.html
These numbers have zero discernible basis in fact 5/12 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003420.html
In her book debunking linguistic myths, Abby Kaplan writes:
"The numbers appear to be plucked out of thin air, and some of them live on as zombie statistics, lumbering from one popular science book to the next." 6/12 https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/book-review-abby-kaplan-women-talk-more-than-men-and-other-myths-about-language-explained/
"The numbers appear to be plucked out of thin air, and some of them live on as zombie statistics, lumbering from one popular science book to the next." 6/12 https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/book-review-abby-kaplan-women-talk-more-than-men-and-other-myths-about-language-explained/
One bestseller, The Female Brain (2006), supplied the figures 20,000 and 7,000 words a day spoken by women and men, respectively. When challenged, the author conceded that this wasn't supported by evidence ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ 7/12
Some studies point to differences in the types or styles of talk that women and men do, as opposed to the volume.
Such differences exist, but they're relatively minor, highly dependent on context & culture, and dwarfed by the variation that exists *within* each gender group 8/12
Such differences exist, but they're relatively minor, highly dependent on context & culture, and dwarfed by the variation that exists *within* each gender group 8/12
e.g. some research suggests women use tag Qs more than men. But this doesn't imply uncertainty/timidity, as is often claimed
Kaplan: "We should be extremely cautious when attempting to make simple connections between the linguistic form of an utterance & its social meaning" 9/12
Kaplan: "We should be extremely cautious when attempting to make simple connections between the linguistic form of an utterance & its social meaning" 9/12
Women are often *perceived* to talk more than men when they're talking the same amount or less.
People systematically overestimate how much women speak in meetings and conversations; see e.g. Cutler & Scott (1990) 10/12 https://core.ac.uk/display/16106470
People systematically overestimate how much women speak in meetings and conversations; see e.g. Cutler & Scott (1990) 10/12 https://core.ac.uk/display/16106470
This may indicate (among other things) bias and unreliability in our subjective perceptions, and the unequal power relations and valuation of social roles in patriarchal culture 11/12
PS: In discussing speech patterns of women and men, I don't mean to tacitly confirm a simplistic gender binary; I'm addressing a specific claim about those two groups, with reference to research that uses that binary 12/12
