Sorry to interrupt, dear, but women really do talk more than men (20,000 words a day more to be precise).
In The Female Brain, published in 2006, Louann Brizendine, M.D. claimed that women say about 20,000 words a day, while men say about 7,000.[4] This mirrored the stereotype of women talking three times as much as men.
The idea that men and women are so different that they are from different planets will get in the way of communicating competently in your marriage. Gender stereotypes treat men and women as categories, not individual people who have hopes, wants, and dreams to share. It is by sharing these aspects of themselves that couples create a joint reality.
To get beyond gender stereotypes in communication, we first need to say what they are. Here are a few stereotypical ideas about how men and women communicate:
•Women talk more than men
•Communication matters more to women than men
•Men talk to get things done; women talk to make emotional connection
•Men talk about things, women talk about people, relationships, and feelings
•Men use language to inform, preserve independence and compete to maintain status, while women use language to enhance cooperation, reflecting their preference for equality and harmony
What’s more, when women do speak up at a similar rate to men, there’s an inaccurate perception that they are talking more than them – and it’s perceived by men and women alike. We are so used to hearing less from women that when they reach anything approximating equivalence, listener bias kicks in and we think we are awash in women’s words.
A woman’s tongue wags like a lamb’s tail”, so an old English saying goes, and if you deign to type “why do women …” into Google’s search bar, the search engine will finish your sentence accordingly with “talk so much”. We’ve been brought up to believe that women are the talkative ones, the ones whose words, both soothing and scolding, are the social glue of small communities and families alike. We assume women talk more than men. But there’s also the more sinister notion that women must be silenced for risk of what they might say about men, a belief Mary Beard traces back to the classical world in her recent tract Women and Power – and something we’ve seen in full contemporary flourish with the eruption of #MeToo.
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