While women are succeeding in historically male professions,
stereotypes of their lack of competence persist as obstacles to
their advancement, with popular media urging women to improve their
language skills if they hope to advance in traditionally male
professions.
In "Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace
Meetings," Cecilia E. Ford rejects popular notions of gender
difference and even deficiency in women's language use. She uses
careful analysis of interaction to counter negative myths, focusing
on women's turns as exemplars skills required by men and women
alike to contribute to workplace meetings. Based on videotaped
meetings in a variety of settings the author offers new insights
into vocal and non-vocal practices for getting and using turns in
these common workplace events. The book introduces conversation
analytic methods and presents new findings on turn taking, the use
of questions to present challenges and open participation, and the
interactional skills required to effectively raise issues that go
counter to ideas of higher ranking co-workers. For any one who
wants to understand meeting interaction, Women Speaking Up offers a
wealth of well-grounded new perspectives, while celebrating women's
demonstrated competence.
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