Speaking Out

JUDITH BAXTER is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Language and Literacy (NCLL), the Institute of Education at the University of Reading, UK. She has written many articles and books, the most recent being Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology.

Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.