Holmes, Holmes and Marra

• Focus

  How gender influences communication styles in the workplace.
• How do men and women differ in workplace talk (according to their findings)?

  • Women use more collaborative and supportive language.
  • Men are more likely to use competitive or autonomous language.
• What did they say about humour at work?

  Humour can build solidarity, but also reinforce hierarchies, depending on who uses it and how.