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gabrielle_erin 's review for:
Men and Women Talking
by Gloria Steinem
SAY IT AGAIN, GLORIA.
When I first started teaching, I was told that in order to control a class, I'd have to speak in a more assertive tone (the underlying message that my higher pitched voice was not respectable as it was). I was given the advice - by male colleagues, might I add - that speaking 'like a man' would get me the most success, because my voice sounded like "a nagging mother".
I wish I could chalk this up to ignorance or gender roles, but 5 years later, at a completely different school, a female colleague pulled me aside and admonished me for being "too aggressive" in a meeting. I left wondering why my tone had been policed in this way, and not my male counterparts.
This is such an important read for everyone. Women get attacked for a lot of things, but this is by far the most ludicrous of them all.
I will speak how I speak and demand equal respect for it. Hallelujah, Gloria.
When I first started teaching, I was told that in order to control a class, I'd have to speak in a more assertive tone (the underlying message that my higher pitched voice was not respectable as it was). I was given the advice - by male colleagues, might I add - that speaking 'like a man' would get me the most success, because my voice sounded like "a nagging mother".
I wish I could chalk this up to ignorance or gender roles, but 5 years later, at a completely different school, a female colleague pulled me aside and admonished me for being "too aggressive" in a meeting. I left wondering why my tone had been policed in this way, and not my male counterparts.
This is such an important read for everyone. Women get attacked for a lot of things, but this is by far the most ludicrous of them all.
I will speak how I speak and demand equal respect for it. Hallelujah, Gloria.