a question

[Sally McConnell-Ginet]

There's a chapter in Deborah Cameron's excellent 
popular book The Myth of Mars and Venus that 
cites research on this and similar ideas 
attributing women's relative lack of power to 
women's own limitations--bottom line seems to be 
that there is no evidence that it is women's 
inadequacies that keep men in power.  Sally

>Dear all,
>
>I am a new Member of the list. I am currently 
>writing my thesis about whether the fear of 
>public speaking is a reason why women are 
>under-represented in field of politics and other 
>power-holding positions. Does anyone know 
>whether there is a literature that answers this 
>question?
>
>Thank you very much in advance,
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Bettina
>
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Sally McConnell-Ginet
Professor Emerita of Linguistics
Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA
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