Women speak less when they're outnumbered
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 14:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Scholars examined whether women speak less than men when a group collaborates to solve a problem. In most groups that they studied, the time that women spoke was significantly less than their proportional representation – amounting to less than 75 percent of the time that men spoke. The disparity vanished when groups followed a unanimous voting rule.