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Do Women Gossip More Than Men?

1960

Cat no. 213315

A local news item enquiring into how men and women perceive each others' talking habits.

A man emerges from a telephone box, holding a microphone; he is dressed in hat, coat, waistcoat and tie. He explains to camera that his friend is 'nattering away' on the telephone, so he is going to take the opportunity of asking members of the public if women talk more than men. The first interviewee, a woman, thinks talking is split fifty-fifty between the sexes. A man with a local accent notes that men can talk 'pretty good'. A woman, who is wearing a hat, pearls and fashionable 'winged' spectacles, thinks men talk more than women, but admits that she speaks the most in her family. Another man thinks women talk more than men 'when they want something'. A woman, holding a stave of a mop or broom, talks about the effects of men's 'rough voices'. A smartly dressed man thinks that 'women talk forever' as if 'vaccinated with a gramophone needle'. A man wearing a bowler hat states that he talks the most in his family, but that women in general speak more on the telephone. The reporter returns to the telephone box to finish the conversation with his friend, having reached the conclusion that 'men and women talk a lot'.

Keywords

Gender stereotyping; Fashions

Manifestations

Do Women Gossip More Than Men?

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