ABSTRACT
This chapter is an opportunity to explore the people perspectives to clarify what each of the reader thinks are differences and similarities between women's and men's communication and to collaborate in suggesting an appropriate research agenda for the future. The chapter is organized into answers each of the reader gives to key questions implicated in scholarship on women's and men's communication. Asymmetrical power and the disparities to which it gives rise explain a number of differences between women and men. Instead, it reflects social prescriptions that define women and not men a primary caregivers, men and not women as primary breadwinners, and professionalism as unwavering and undiluted commitment to work. Studying sex and gender differences and similarities is secondary to explaining whatever differences and similarities the people find in women's and men's communication. An approach that studies differences and similarities will reduce gender stereotypes, sex role behavior, and sexism.
