Women's voices getting deeper

[ArabellaScott]

I just stumbled on this, thought it was really interesting, article from 2018:

'Women today speak at a deeper pitch than their mothers or grandmothers would have done, thanks to the changing power dynamics between men and women'

www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180612-the-reasons-why-womens-voices-are-deeper-today

I'm not at all sure the driver for this change is hearing impaired older people!

Oh, interesting though! Given that we have an ageing population demographic and women have been primary carers for the elderly for like, billenia.

Could it possibly be that women are on average bigger and heavier these days?

On the hearing loss thing, high pitches are usually the first to go with age due to the position of the hairs inside the cochlea.

The studies I have seen link it to women entering male dominated workplaces.

Whatever happems with hearing loss when you're older. It tracks to work. Men who can hear perfectly well.

It's about the fact that IME and in my industry. Men who are tall/ imposing/ IE the 'proper' men get automatic respect and listened to and that's theirs to lose.

The men in male dominated environments do seem to be competing on some kind of male hierarchy that women just don't even register on. And aren't comfortable with women being in the mix with.

I really don't think it's due to older men with hearing loss tbh

I’ve often noticed in the crappy American kids shows that my DCs watch on Netflix some of the women have really high voices, they sound tight, unnatural and forced. I assumed it was part of sounding’feminine’.

I’ve often noticed in the crappy American kids shows that my DCs watch on Netflix some of the women have really high voices, they sound tight, unnatural and forced. I assumed it was part of sounding ’feminine’

True! But I also find that with posh English voices ( such as a few on 'Made In Chelsea'); they seem strangulated, and the mouth has to do strange contortions to make the sounds. As if the sound comes from no deeper than the oral cavity itself

@Jennygentle

Could it possibly be that women are on average bigger and heavier these days?

Don't think there's any correlation between women's body size and pitch of voice - think of the cliche if the Wagnerian soprano .