Mothers are women. What else is new? The reason to focus on that fact is that women's voices get frequent criticism. A mother in a mothers' group complained about her interaction with a repair man who accused her of yelling at him. She said, "If a man raises his voice he is seen as an authority who commands attention. A woman is told she is yelling and called a shrew."Is there something about women's voices that can account for this? One clue may lie in the experience of hearing one's own [...]
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