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...Krupnick's report gives four major reasons for women's reluctance to speak out and speak first: "Their demographic status as members of a minority in the classroom, their inability or unwillingness to compete against men, their vulnerability to interruption and the fact that men and women talk in runs...
According to Krupnick, women are more likely to feel more comfortable interrupting each other rather than interrupting men. This contributes to an additional lessening of women's speaking time...
...Krupnick also reports that speaking patterns are developed within the first few weeks of classes...
Additionally, the Bok Center, working closely with Krupnick, has just completed an educational video for teachers that uses vignettes to show different strategies for including women in classroom discussions...
...though Krupnick's findings and Franklin's observations support a belief that female students participate more in classes led by women, others say that have a female teacher may not help...