Kara Alaimo, an associate professor in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, writes about women and social media. She was spokeswoman for international affairs in the Treasury Department during the Obama administration. Follow her on Twitter @karaalaimo. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion at CNN.
At a diversity and inclusion conference last week, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that part of the reason the court had to change the format of its oral arguments was that female justices kept getting interrupted by men. Indeed, a 2017 study of three Supreme Court terms in which there were four women justices found that the three justices who were interrupted the most were all women.
Kara Alaimo If some of the most experienced and venerated women in the country can't hold court without being interrupted, just imagine how much of a problem "manterruptions" are for the rest of us. In 2014, the empirical linguist Kieran Snyder found that, at least in the male-dominated tech industry, men interrupt people who are speaking twice as often as women. Men are also three times more likely to interrupt women than they are to interrupt other men.
She should identify as a man. Problem solved.
Sometimes you just got to shut a woman up…
Women need to respond by telling the one, who interrupts with 'I codially request interrupter to kindly shut the F* up until I have finished.
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