{"id":990,"date":"2016-06-06T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:00:21","slug":"five-things-leaders-can-do-to-help-women-get-their-voices-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/five-things-leaders-can-do-to-help-women-get-their-voices-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things Leaders Can Do to Help Women Get Their Voices Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI recently facilitated a leadership development workshop with a mixed-gender, mixed-race group and noticed a familiar pattern\u2014the men, regardless of race, took up much more airtime than the women, and the women, especially the women of color, hardly said anything at all. I felt a familiar sense of annoyance rise up in me as one man after another seemed to go on and on whenever he had the floor, and I had to call on individual women and draw them out to get their voices and ideas into the room.\nYes, I know that not all men have the \u201con and on\u201d disease, and that some women speak a lot in groups, but this difference in gendered communication patterns has been well documented in social science research. Julia Baird recently wrote about this dynamic<\/a>, which she calls \u201cmanologues,\u201d in the New York Times<\/em> and put words to my experience in the following statement: \u201cMen take, and are allocated, more time to talk in almost every professional setting. Women self-censor, edit (and) apologize for speaking. Men expound.\u201d\nIn her article, Baird summarized the findings from a number of studies that support her statements as follows:\n\n\n