Understanding gender differences in amount of talk

To my knowledge, the earliest meta-analysis to examine which gender speaks more was James & Drakich’s chapter in Gender and Conversational Interaction (1993). They found that most studies found that men speak more than women, and their findings did not support the widelyheld view that men’s speech is “dominant” and women’s speech is “cooperative.” This was probably the most widely cited meta-analysis, although it only surveyed 56 studies; meta-analyses published since have examined more and do not support James & Drakich’s findings.