Do Women Talk A Lot?

I heard it on the radio awhile back, but this is hard facts that do indeed talk more than men. Or, at least, the average male. Here's my spin on it:

Talkative women; Silent men.

Is that stereotypical of me? Well it’s not just me. Now the stereotypes have been given scientific substance, of sorts, by a book in the US, The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine (clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco).

In her book, Brizendine claims that men and women are different because their brains function differently. One of the most interesting examples she comes up with is that women talk more - 20,000 words a day compared with 7,000 for the average man - and they talk twice as fast.

Everything makes so much sense!