{"id":17192,"date":"2025-06-30T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailybase.com\/en\/?p=17192"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:27:08","slug":"turns-out-men-and-women-dont-talk-that-differently-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailybase.com\/en\/turns-out-men-and-women-dont-talk-that-differently-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out Men and Women Don\u2019t Talk That Differently After All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For nearly a century, pop culture and even professional training sessions have leaned on the idea that men and women speak entirely different languages when they talk to people of the same sex. The stereotypes were familiar: women gossip, men get straight to the point. But modern research paints a far more nuanced, and surprisingly similar, picture. Keep reading to discover more about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who said Men and Women Talk differently? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in 1922, researchers confidently stated that women<\/strong><\/a> mostly talked about clothing and relationships, while men preferred business, finance, and recreation. The explanation? \u201cNatural\u201d gender differences. That assumption shaped countless social norms, fueling everything from self-help books to corporate communication workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But by the 1990s, those rigid categories began to unravel. Contemporary linguistic studies found that men and women talk about many of the same things when placed in similar roles or environments. Whether it\u2019s work stress, personal finances, hobbies, or even politics, the gap in conversation topics isn\u2019t as wide as once believed. They discovered that what really matters isn’t gender, but context. When both sexes have the same type of responsibilities or experiences, their way of communicating will also be similar. So, especially in a day and age where men and women have the same jobs, these differences will become something from the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender Differences in Language Are Mostly About Power<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Researchers also discovered that the biggest factor isn’t biology, it’s power. In online spaces, women are just as active in heated or technical debates as men. This is mostly the case when they feel confident or occupy leadership roles. Now we can’t think that women shy away from complex discussions in real life, they’re just participating differently. And this all depends on how much authority or comfort they have in the environment they’re in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research suggests that the things we talk about and how we talk about them are more a reflection of social factors in comparison with chromosomes or someone’s gender. This means language is shaped by what people do, not who they are. The more equal the playing field, the more similar the speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A century of studies shows the gap between what men and women talk about has almost disappeared, and it\u2019s got nothing to do with biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":17195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.dailybase.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/06\/pexels-seven-7-1269738-2420585-2.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.dailybase.com\/en\/author\/baldussu\/"},"yoast_head":"\nTurns Out Men and Women Don\u2019t Talk That Differently After All - Daily Base EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was a "well-known" Fact that men and women talk about different things because of their gender. 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