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Can You Be Feminine and in a Power Position?

By LEAH EICHLER via The Globe and Mail
Friday, Oct. 19 2012

 

When a study from Rice University in Houston came out last week showing that women were twice as likely to use emoticons in what is increasingly one of the most common ways to communicate – texting – I brushed it off as useless trivia.

But then I started recognizing other habits that women, including me, use when communicating digitally, such as multiple exclamation marks and closing off e-mails with overly touching language. There appears to be a need to go to great lengths to ensure that we come across softly, even in a professional setting. If “language is power,” as British novelist Angela Carter once said, then what do these smiley faces say about us? Read full article>>