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Jenni Young

What The Bechdel Test Is And Why Every Movie In Hollywood Needs To Pass It - 0 views

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    Think of the last movie you watched and answer this: Did women talk to other women about anything other than men? Are women represented equally in films?
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    Think of the last movie you watched and answer this: Did women talk to other women about anything other than men? Are women represented equally in films?
Jenni Young

Women really do talk more than men (13,000 words a day more to be precise) - 0 views

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    Researchers from the University of Maryland say the reason women are more talkative - and speak up to 20,000 words a day - is because of higher levels of the Foxp2 protein (Mail Online)
Jenni Young

Prattle of the sexes: Do women talk more than men? - 0 views

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    When it comes to conversation, are women really more likely to be bigger talkers than men? (BBC Future Health)
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Not Sorry | #ShineStrong Pantene - YouTube - 0 views

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    Pantene commercial based on the fact that women are 37% more likely than men to identify their own behavior as worthy of an apology, which leads to women apologizing more frequently than men do
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    Pantene commercial based on the fact that women are 37% more likely than men to identify their own behavior as worthy of an apology, which leads to women apologizing more frequently than men do
Jenni Young

Meet the women doing 'men's work' - 0 views

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    The Guardian talks to seven women working in professions heavily dominated by men - from one of the 0.5% of truck drivers who are women to one of the only three female butchers in the UK.
Jenni Young

Gender agenda (review of Deborah Cameron's book Do Men and Women Really Speak Different... - 2 views

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    Steven Poole finds the differences between men and women have little to do with speech in Deborah Cameron's Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? (Book review)
Jenni Young

Shrinking Women by Lily Myers | Words Dance Publishing - 0 views

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    performance video and text of poem 'Shrinking Women' by Lily Myers
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Shrinking Women by Lily Meyers - 0 views

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    Poet Lily Meyers - on how women express themselve
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Why Women Apologize More Than Men - 0 views

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    Link to two studies which look at whether women apologise more frequently than men.
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    Link to two studies which look at whether women apologise more frequently than men.
Jenni Young

How to listen so they'll talk and talk so they'll listen - 1 views

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    Advice for single women and men from "a licensed marriage and family therapist and dating coach". From itsyourtechnique.com
Jenni Young

How to speak 'Menglish' - the language 'only men' understand - Telegraph - 0 views

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    Scientists have cracked it! Men and women don't understand each other because he speaks 'menglish', a report reveals. A sceptical Rebecca Holman tries to learn a new language. (Daily Telegraph)
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Is 'strident' a sexist term? - 1 views

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    'Strident' is more frequently used to describe women than men
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What language barrier? - 0 views

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    It is a truism that men and women do not communicate in the same way. But is there really any evidence to support this Mars-and-Venus theory? Oxford language professor Deborah Cameron investigates in the first of three extracts from her new book
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Speak up, I can't hear you - 2 views

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    Can it really be true that men and women understand language in different ways? Nonsense, says Deborah Cameron in this second extract from her new book - the supposed miscommunication is a myth
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Back down to Earth - 0 views

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    Why, when men and women are more equal than ever, is the myth about the sexes coming from different planets so popular? Deborah Cameron, in the third of three extracts from her new book, argues that the 'Martians' and 'Venusians' are more similar than they think
Jenni Young

Long story long - 0 views

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    Reaction to a cartoon about 'women talk'
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Do women really talk more? - 0 views

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    Article from The Guardian. A bestselling book claims that women say an average of 20,000 words a day and men only 7,000. Can it be true? We wired up two writers to find out.
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Lead Story From 1941 Woman Magazine: 'Women Talk Too Much' - 0 views

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    How much have things changed since 1941?
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This 1941 Women's Magazine's Actual Lead Article: - 0 views

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    Discussion of Women's Magazine article "Women talk too much"
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