I know people are sick of this issue, as though it’s just easier for women to put themselves out as food to be eaten by men in all the ways that we do since we have so much more to offer than they do, but the inequity will tank the species if we keep going with the status quo.
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https://magazine.byu.edu/article/when-women-dont-speak/
Women are systematically seen as less authoritative,” says Preece. “And their influence is systematically lower. And they’re speaking less. And when they’re speaking up, they’re not being listened to as much, and they are being interrupted more.”
The article
Heed the message, don’t kill the messenger.
But as a society we have been “slowly socialized over years to discount” female expertise and perspectives.
Male authority, everywhere, is UNCONSCIOUSLY assumed. Meaning no one has to even think about it. It is obvious on all media, in all job places, in all Institutions that the man speaks loudest first, and longest and the woman submits to the social order, necessarily pretty and thin. If she doesn’t, like Melania Trump, she is called by her husband “difficult,” at the end of her own movie.-L.T.
“A lone female spoke the least. A lone male? Nothing will hold him back, Karpowitz and Mendelberg found. “Men are willing and eager to jump into conversations, and they come with a level of confidence where they just expect themselves to be influential,” says Karpowitz. “They go for it no matter what.”

