Ch 4 Blog Post #1

One of the three stories on gender differences stated that women talk more (even excessively) than men. Once media and the rest of society picked up on this myth, it somehow turned into a fact despite actual evidence stating otherwise. This quote is a prime example that men are, quite often, the more talkative ones. Even though you could make the argument and say that men talk more in politics because there are more men in politics, this would not be true universally. The study Dale Spender did with her recorder was enough proof to show that men talk more. Some of her conversations were one-on-one meaning that both parties should have equal opportunity to speak. But, the men talked more. However, since this discovery does not agree with the cultural idea, it is swept under the rug.