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It’s Not Just You: In Online Meetings, Many Women Can’t Get a Word In

9 points by mmhsieh 7y ago

JamesBarney 7y ago
> One study by the Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll found that when male executives spoke more often, they were perceived to be more competent, but when female executives spoke more often, they were given lower competence ratings Here's is what the study they're referring to measured. They volunteers read one of 4 bios of an executive. They were identical except they were divided across whether the executive was described as male, female, talkative or quiet. They found that talkative women were rated a 4.83, quiet women 5.62, talkative men 5.64, quiet men 5.11. > The annual McKinsey and LeanIn.org Women in the Workplace report, which in 2019 surveyed 329 companies and more than 68,000 employees, found that half of the surveyed women had experienced being interrupted or spoken over and 38 percent had others take credit for their ideas. I imagine women are talked over more than men but I wish they'd share the percentage of men to show the disparity.
- BubRoss 7y ago
  This title is a bastardization of the article and the conclusion is a bastardization of statistics. Someone talked over you and took your ideas? Welcome to being a person.
montroser 7y ago
At work we switched from zoom to https://team.video https://team.video in part because when we tried it out, all of the sudden the quieter people were actually using the emoji reactions to register agreement or reservations, or whatever feelings about the point being made. And so we could have a much richer discussion, because when someone would flag their concern, we could know to dig in and ask questions to understand the hesitation. Or even better, if we could see everyone is in agreement, then we get to stop talking about the thing and move on. It was immediate for some people, and for others it took a little getting used to, but so far overall it has been a great equalizer for those who might have previously kept their good ideas to themselves.

9 points by mmhsieh 7y ago

> One study by the Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll found that when male executives spoke more often, they were perceived to be more competent, but when female executives spoke more often, they were given lower competence ratings Here's is what the study they're referring to measured. They volunteers read one of 4 bios of an executive. They were identical except they were divided across whether the executive was described as male, female, talkative or quiet. They found that talkative women were rated a 4.83, quiet women 5.62, talkative men 5.64, quiet men 5.11. > The annual McKinsey and LeanIn.org Women in the Workplace report, which in 2019 surveyed 329 companies and more than 68,000 employees, found that half of the surveyed women had experienced being interrupted or spoken over and 38 percent had others take credit for their ideas. I imagine women are talked over more than men but I wish they'd share the percentage of men to show the disparity.

BubRoss 7y ago
This title is a bastardization of the article and the conclusion is a bastardization of statistics. Someone talked over you and took your ideas? Welcome to being a person.

montroser 7y ago

At work we switched from zoom to https://team.video https://team.video in part because when we tried it out, all of the sudden the quieter people were actually using the emoji reactions to register agreement or reservations, or whatever feelings about the point being made. And so we could have a much richer discussion, because when someone would flag their concern, we could know to dig in and ask questions to understand the hesitation. Or even better, if we could see everyone is in agreement, then we get to stop talking about the thing and move on. It was immediate for some people, and for others it took a little getting used to, but so far overall it has been a great equalizer for those who might have previously kept their good ideas to themselves.