Experts have found with and without research that men and woman, in fact, do communicate differently. Women are seen to be more verbal than men and men are seem to prioritize what they say. Women speak faster and men are more to the point, but are these differences that they have due to biological in-balances? Two directions are typically taken when discussing this topic about communicative differences: biological explanations and sociocultural explanations. The first approach discusses how physiological and neurological discrepancies of men and women lead to communication differences. The biological aspect focuses on “hard determinism” because women are thought to have different styles of communicating naturally because that is how they biologically made up. In the article titled, “Are Gender Differences in Communication Biologically Determined?, Brent Slife mentions two authors that posses either a pro side or con side to the argument.
For the Pro Side of the argument, titled, “The Female Brain,” she mentions that more than 99 percent of male and female genetic coding is exactly the same. To our observing eyes, it seems that men and women are vastly different but she argues that females and males are not the same. Male brains are larger by about 9 percent even though they seem to be more bulky than women. In the nineteenth century, it was thought that women had a smaller brain capacity than men, but nowadays you can see that we have the exact same number of brain cells. She mentions as funny analogy as well saying that, [a man] “his is like a mountain that is worn away imperceptibly over the millennia by glaciers , weather, and the deep tectonic movements of the earth. Hers is more like the weather itself—constantly changing and hard to predict.
On the con side of the argument, social identity explains the reasons why men and women communicate differently. Social indentity is defined as: “aspects of a person’s self-image derived from the social categories...