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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

If Books Could Kill

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Do Women Talk More Than Men?

In the myth of Mars and Venus book, she says, one study of heterosexual couples talk found that women asked men far more questions. Questions are often used as opening moves in a conversation rather than being straightforward requests for information. Once women had offered them a topic they were interested in, they often did most of the talking. They left it to their female partner to do what Fishman called interactional shit work.

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