Episode description

In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: "Are women not getting help around the house because they're using the wrong modal verb?"

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Sources:

• The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
• A critical response to John Gray's Mars and Venus portrayals of men and women 
• The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
• The Rebuttal from Uranus
• Coming home upset: Gender, marital satisfaction and the daily spillover of workday experience into couple interactions
• FDA warning letter 
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: An Analysis of a Potential Meme
• Women, Men and Language 
• Women, Men, and Gender: Ongoing Debates
• Women and Men Talking: Are They World’s Apart?