Language Log investigated the "vocal fry problem" a few years back. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=174

Language Log investigated the "vocal fry problem" a few years back. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489 "And they want to talk about the crazy ways that young women are speaking. And the first thing they do is attribute it to young women, even though young men are doing it too. So it's a policing of young people, but I think most particularly young women."