Women have to talk like Men if they want to get on in the World

'Women have to talk like men if they want to get on in the world'

This outdated term is something that has been used throughout history to make out that Women are inferior to Men. Another way of keeping our patriarchal society stuck in the position it's been in for the past 100 years and onward. The first thing that is wrong about this statement is that it believes Women and Men speak differently, this has been disproved after various studies. The largest factor that suggested there was a difference in our language was the idea of context which was never really observed as well.

The first things stereo-typed about the language of the female is that they have weak vocabulary and fillers. For example, its stated in many places that women use words like 'um' and 'like' way too much. In my experience that's completely hypocritical. I know plenty of Males that use the same kind of fillers plus more, Males are often more accustomed to using taboo language but again, it's not only males that do it. We all do it.

Being a guy, I've noticed my whole life that women often have a far better vocabulary than men but that's simply just context. If I spoke to more intelligent guys then I'd notice the same use of more advanced vocabulary. Let's describe it within a situation. A man and a woman are both working within the same profession and have had the same education, they're both going to know the same jargen from that profession although they're going to have subtle differences such as maybe dialects, accents and colloquial use of language. Although this is something you'd see different between two women or two men.

It is not that women need to change their language. We all need to learn to speak with confidence. Men can often speak in ways that women are blamed for constantly. Women are said to be more emotional in the way that they speak but research stated that around 45% of males spoke about personal issues and emotions which was similar to women which 60% of them spoke about the same things. That's not as large of a gap as we all expect, yet it's true. Although I feel like there are more reasons to why men speak less about emotion, we're told we're not meant to. Again referring us to the common statement, 'be a man'. Instead of making Women speak like men we should have a look at how we could all be more open and caring with our use of language.

Let's look at another thing that ALL WOMEN apparently do, apparently up-talk is another disparity between men and women. What is up-talk? Well in a normal declarative sentence such as "Let's go out to the shops" there would be a rising intonation at the end thus making the declaration sound more like a question. Well actually we all use it, what a surprise. Men use it just as much as women says some researchers although Women tend to use it more when they know they're about to be interrupted.

So overall, No. Women do not have to talk like men, Women already do. We all pretty much talk the same. Its all just a matter of context.