Moreover, in conversations with women, men do most of the talking (Haas, 1979), and despite hackneyed stereotypes about women being more talkative than men, we're apparently used to this pattern. When people listen to record-ings of conversations, they think it's more disrespectful and assertive for a woman to interrupt a m~ than vice versa (Lafrance, 1992). Rowland S. Miller
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Women tend to interrupt men more than vice versa. It's not because women are more assertive. Women do interrupt men sometimes and they do it less often than men interrupt women. Men are used to being interrupted by women, so they're not as offended by it.

Instead, they just let it go. The fact that women are more likely to interrupt doesn't mean that men are more effective at talking or that women are less useful at listening. If you need somebody to listen to you talk, you should seek out a woman.

Source: Intimate Relationships

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