On Facebook, women lean in. Women on the world’s largest social network use slightly more assertive language than men in their status updates, according to a new study. Psychologists and computer-science researchers from five universities in the U.S., U.K. and Australia teamed up to analyze the language of more than 15,000 Facebook users in an effort... That is different than how women act in other settings, prior research shows.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 27, 2016 08:56 UTC