Language

CM 219: Susannah Baldwin on Women’s Voices at Work

Is our cultural conditioning holding women back at work? We don’t often notice how we’re culturally conditioned. Like when we walk into a store and the girls’ toys are pink and boys’ toys are blue. It’s a gender norm we may not question.  Now you might ask, in the big scheme of things, how much…

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CM 173: Katherine Kinzler on How Language Shapes Us

We recognize the biases we hold around race, class, and gender, but what about language? Katherine Kinzler, author of the book, How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do – and What It Says about You, explains, “The language you speak, and the accent or dialect you use to speak it, is…

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