Are the police crashing your meetings?

From NPR to Amy Schumer to the Washington Post to Business Insider, national media outlets over the last several months have catalyzed a national conversation about whether criticism of women’s speech patterns (e.g. vocal fry, upspeak, frequent apologies) amounts to a kind of sexist language policing.

Increasingly, it is showing up in the public conversation as a binary question: “Should we police/monitor women’s speech?” Framed as a yes/no question, the answer seems pretty obvious. (Um, no.) Yet framed in this way, the question also provides little insight or guidance for managing everyday work situations where your language, as a woman, may be having an unintended impact.

I want to fill that void with some practical advice.

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