Do You Speak American . What Speech Do We Like Best? . Prejudice . Women. Women Talk Too Much No, they don’t.
Rather, they don’t in every situation. Social context and relative power determine who talks more, men or women. Janet Holmes sets the record straight and establishes the reasons for the lingering myth of female chattiness. (The research cited in this essay was first published in 1999.) Do women talk more than men? Women’s tongues are like lambs’ tails – they are never still. Some suggest that while women talk, men are silent patient listeners. When both husband and wife wear pants it is not difficult to tell them apart – he is the one who is listening. Others indicate that women’s talk is not valued but is rather considered noisy, irritating prattle: Where there are women and geese, there’s noise. Indeed, there is a Japanese character which consists of three instances of the character for the concept ‘woman’ and which translates as ‘noisy’!
The tongue is the sword of a woman and she never lets it become rusty. So what are the facts? The Evidence. The Honest Courtesan. Women Atop Their Fields Discuss the Scientific Life. Elena Aprile, Joy Hirsch, Mary-Claire King and Tal Rabin are members of a rare breed — women scientists at the top of their fields.
Dr. Aprile, a professor of physics at Columbia University, is searching for dark matter. Dr. Hirsch, a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University, maps brain processes. Dr. What follows is a condensed and edited transcript of one part of the discussion. GINA KOLATA: I once wrote about the life of a senior scientist who traveled from meeting to meeting promoting himself and his work.
MARY-CLAIRE KING: We are very well established. ELENA APRILE: You have to do what the guys do, and it does not matter what it takes. TAL RABIN: Even when we do make it to the conferences, I think that there is still something different about the way that we promote ourselves. I remember standing next to one of my co-authors, and he was talking to some other guy, and he was telling him, “I have this amazing result.
MS. Sheryl Sandberg, Barnard Commencement 2011. Sheryl Sandberg Barnard Graduation Speech (May 2011) Why I care about women and social enterprise. Social enterprise is a lifestyle rather than just a job.
In essence, men and women who set up and develop social enterprises share similar motives – they are in it because they care and want to make a difference, while a recent study shows that women are more likely to be engaged in social entrepreneurial activity than they are in mainstream entrepreneurial activity". At a time when new impact investment initiatives are popping up in all parts of the world, women-led social ventures now have more opportunities to show leadership, build viable proposals, find relevant investors and generate a positive social impact. So why do I bother developing and connecting female social entrepreneurs? What I am passionate about is not "women's stuff" but the "stuff that these women do". It's easier to do this in an environment where our male colleagues show more empathy and collaborative traits than the majority of men in mainstream business.
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