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Stop Telling Women How to Talk
by: Carolyn Kiel
If you’re a woman who podcasts, or a woman who speaks anywhere in public, you’ve probably experienced at least one moment where your voice has been criticized – not for the substance of your message, but for the way your voice sounds. Perhaps you’ve also heard people label other women’s voices as “shrill,” “whiny,” “annoying” or a similar demeaning descriptor.
Typically, comments like these are rationalized as either “constructive feedback” for an individ- ual woman or universal truths about how women’s voices sound. This type of reasoning implies that if the individual woman (or women in general) would change the way they speak, then their voices would sound “acceptable” and people would stop complaining. However, the truth is much more complex. It doesn’t matter what a woman’s voice sounds like, or how much public speaking training she’s received – it’s almost impossible for her to escape this type of criticism. This stems from a long history of complaints that target and silence women’s voices, in an at- tempt to prevent women from sharing their voices publicly at all.
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Carolyn Kiel is an experienced instructional designer of employee training programs. On her award-winning podcast, Beyond 6 Seconds, she features neurodivergent and disabled entrepreneurs, creatives and advocates who shatter misconceptions, break stigma, and showcase the vibrance and diversity of these communities. Carolyn has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Vassar College and a Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
by: Carolyn Kiel
If you’re a woman who podcasts, or a woman who speaks anywhere in public, you’ve probably experienced at least one moment where your voice has been criticized – not for the substance of your message, but for the way your voice sounds. Perhaps you’ve also heard people label other women’s voices as “shrill,” “whiny,” “annoying” or a similar demeaning descriptor.
Typically, comments like these are rationalized as either “constructive feedback” for an individ- ual woman or universal truths about how women’s voices sound. This type of reasoning implies that if the individual woman (or women in general) would change the way they speak, then their voices would sound “acceptable” and people would stop complaining. However, the truth is much more complex. It doesn’t matter what a woman’s voice sounds like, or how much public speaking training she’s received – it’s almost impossible for her to escape this type of criticism. This stems from a long history of complaints that target and silence women’s voices, in an at- tempt to prevent women from sharing their voices publicly at all.
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Carolyn Kiel is an experienced instructional designer of employee training programs. On her award-winning podcast, Beyond 6 Seconds, she features neurodivergent and disabled entrepreneurs, creatives and advocates who shatter misconceptions, break stigma, and showcase the vibrance and diversity of these communities. Carolyn has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Vassar College and a Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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