Why Women Talk More than Men…

Regardless of what research comes about, I still believe that women do talk more than men on average. Yes it is an average which does not make it true for everyone, but true for most. Just in my experience I have noticed on many occasions that women love to talk more than men in almost every type of environment. Whether it be work, bars, or other social gatherings; women are always leading most of the conversation.

You be the judge:

Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women

Women talk three times as much as men, says study

As in any experiment, there is always error. Perhaps the fact that they chose college students in the first experiment causes different results than in the other study. Whatever the case, we will always see whatever we want to see in any experiment of this nature. As stated in the first article:

“We use our gender magnifying glass and over-generalize from that,” Mehl says. “Instead of saying that men tend to talk less and women tend to talk more, we say ‘Women always talk and men never talk.’”

However, I largely disagree with this quote from the same article:

“It puts men into the gender box, that in order to be a good male, we’d better not talk — (that) silence is golden,” Mehl says. “The stereotype puts unfortunate constraints on men and women – the idea that you can only happily be a woman if you’re talkative and you can only be happy as a man if you’re reticent. The study relieves those gender constraints.”

I was never told by my parents or even aware that women talked more until I started interacting with them on a regular basis. This paragraph seems to be taking the results and making its own conclusions.