Caroline Kitcher: Do you think we believe women’s voices less?
Julia Whelan: Yes. I think part of the problem is that women have been socially conditioned to present their voices in a certain way. Maybe we have told them that high and breathier is sexier … or that they should present their statements as questions, that they should pull back from anything declarative, or deliver statements with a tone of apology. And I think those kinds of vocal patterns are off-putting to a listener of either sex. If you want to create a very trustworthy, capable, “just-sit-back-I-got-this” feeling, that’s not the way to go about it.
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