Who Talks More, Men or Women?

A common stereotype describes women as being talkative, always speaking and expressing their feelings. Well, this is probably true. However, do women do it more than men? No! In fact an experiment designed to measure the amount of speech produced suggested that men are more prone to use up more talking time than women. This experiment, carried out by Marjorie Swacker entailed the description of three pictures by men and women, the men took a much longer time to describe the pictures.

One explanation is that in most parts of the world, men are dominant and that power relationship shows itself in the amount of speech they are allowed to produce.