I recommend reading these ladies thoughts on the topic, as they are far more nuanced than mine: this or this or this.
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"Women, Men, and Language shows that in an academic setting women can conversationally take up no more than 30 percent of the talking time before men feel women are contributing too much. During a five-week study, during the two days in which women’s contributions exceeded the men’s, the men became distressed and angry, feeling they were being 'silenced'" (Coates, J. 2004: 118).
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