Podcast Episode 013: “Manterrupting” and Other Male-Female Communication Quirks
Episode Summary:
In this episode, Gloria welcomes to the show journalist and author, Jessica Bennett. Jessica is the gender editor of The New York Times, working to expand global coverage of women, gender and society across platforms. Her book, Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, chronicles how to navigate subtle sexism at work and provides real-life career advice for a new generation of professional women. Jessica shares some of her own experiences with workplace sexism and provides tips and strategies to combat ‘manterrupting,’ ‘mansplaining,’ ‘bropropriating,’ and many other issues women are subjected to on a daily basis.
The included interview first aired live on YouTube during Take The Lead’s Virtual Happy Hour. Watch the video here.
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Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, by Jessica Bennett
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Quotes/Tweetables
“But I think it’s important and you mentioned the pop culture vocabulary. I think that what these words do is create a catchy way of talking about what’s happening.”
— Jessica Bennett
“Clearly, it’s about power. Clearly, it’s about asserting power and how power is asserted or not. And men, again, have traditionally been socialized to use power, the power of language and the language of power, as key ways of controlling other people.”
— Gloria Feldt
“You have to be able to identify these behaviors in a way that people will remember. And the fact that there are words like ‘manspreading’ or ‘manterrupting,’ even if they’re putting the fault on men in the terminology itself, have prompted this huge cultural conversation that we were not having before at all.”
— Jessica Bennett
“I think in the case of a man or a woman if they’re using a gendered term like that, the question is ‘Would you ever call a man shrill?’ or ‘What’s the male equivalent of being shrill?”
— Jessica Bennett
“There’s also research to show that actually giving credit to other people makes you look better in a workplace scenario. And so it benefits you and it benefits the person.”
— Jessica Bennett
“I think speaking with authority is really important and probably changes the way people listen and whether or not they do interrupt. Because you kinda first have to own it yourself before you’re gonna convince other people.”
— Jessica Bennett
“Politics will never change if we don’t go into it.”
— Jessica Bennett
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.