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Terrified of public speaking? Start with what you really want to say
Most of us are afraid of oratory – and women’s voices are judged particularly harshly. Then I started worrying: about researching and writing the equivalent of a mini-dissertation; about speaking persuasively in public; especially about my voice. In her bestselling essay Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard gives her readers a depressing history lesson about how classical society abominated the very idea of women speaking in public. Beard suggests we are not comfortable with women speaking publicly even now. Is this a particularly female way to approach speaking in public or is it just me, I wonder?
Source: The Guardian April 09, 2018 04:52 UTC
