What Do We Hear When Women Speak?

Carole Simpson, a longtime television newscaster, was told early in her career that she could not be an anchor because "women don't like to hear other women on the air.""Women's voices are shrill and not authoritative enough," one boss told her, noting that news coming out of their mouths "sounds like gossip."Simpson worked to make her voice deeper, "pitching it to a lower register" to project the sound from her diaphragm. "I was lucky I had taken theater in school," she said. "It was great prep