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Study confirms that women don’t speak up as much when outnumbered by men

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Scholars at Brigham Young University and Princeton examined whether women speak less than men when a group collaborates to solve a problem. In most groups that they studied, the time that women spoke was significantly less than their proportional representation – amounting to less than 75 percent of the time that men spoke.

Read the Feministing discussion here, or access the full report.

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