paulh@tektronix.UUCP (Paul Hoefling) (01/20/85)
Posted for Barbara Zanzig
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From The Oregonian, Feb. 16, 1985 (Knight-Ridder News Service):
MEN SAID CONVERSATION HOGS
In an average conversation between a man and a woman, women ask 70
percent of the questions and men interrupt 96 percent of the time.
When people of the same sex are paired off, they interrupt and question
each other on an equal basis.
Researchers have yet to figure out why this is so, but Science 85
(January-February) examines a number of possibilities. Studies have
shown that men not only interrupt conversations when women speak, they
also decide what to talk about.
A study by public relations consultant Pamela Fishman analyzed 76
conversational efforts advanced by members of either sex. In 28 of 29
tries, the male attempts to broach a new topic were successful. But
women were successful in only 17 of 47 attempts, although all the males
participating in the experiment said they sympathized with the women's
movement.
Men talk more, hold the floor longer and discourage female contributions
to conversations, claims writer John Pfeiffer - all affronts that lead
women "to a guarded way of life."
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Hmmm. Seems to apply to the net too, n'est-ce pas?
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Barbara Zanzig
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Paul Hoefling (...!tektronix!paulh)
Information Pack Ratjc@mit-athena.ARPA (John Chambers) (01/24/85)
> ... Studies have > shown that men not only interrupt conversations when women speak, they > also decide what to talk about. ... > Hmmm. Seems to apply to the net too, n'est-ce pas? Hmmm. Yup, it's true. When editing an article for the net, I have never yet been interrupted by any message from a woman. On the other hand, I've also never interrupted any woman on the net while she was trying to submit an article. Guess I'm just a wimp. :-) John Chambers