Berkeley Voices

Berkeley Voices


42: Why we think women sound shrill, immature

October 09, 2018

Professor Tom McEnaney, who teaches a class called “Sounding American,” says the U.S. has a long history of men criticizing the way women speak. Sound technologies, starting with the gramophone and phonograph, he says, were developed for men's voices — and distort women’s. Read the story on Berkeley News.