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In most cases though it is men interrupting women. https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2017/07/07/men-interrupting-women https://www.advisory.com/daily-bri

• civilized 4y ago
  Wow, those findings are really dramatic. Not only the proportion of interruptions in opposite-sex conversations was nearly all by men in the first study, but also the number of interruptions was 4x the same-sex conversations. So on average, just the presence of a woman seems to really trigger men to use a much more domineering style. I think this is a big reason why sex-segregated settings are often found to be helpful or protective to women, e.g. in middle and high school. Or more broadly, in places like bathrooms and prisons. It would be interesting to see if the interruptions tend to come from particular men or are broadly distributed. All that said, everyone who has an issue with hijacking conversations should be incentivized to fix this, regardless of their demographic group.