What Do You Think?

Women ask more questions than men? Women have a more questioning tone to their statements? Women use more tag questions? Women are more likely to begin with a question? Women use more qualifiers?

I believe it. But why is it?

Are women less confident than men? Do they want to seem more agreeable, so they ask questions to figure out the other’s opinion? Is it because they want to start a conversation? Or do we just like to talk, so we ask unnecessary questions to spit out more words?

The book states that “women do much of the work in starting and maintaining conversations.” We do this because we value interaction and communication. I guess questioning is just one easy way of keeping a conversation going.