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Despite these findings,the myth is still widely believed,particularly among males,than men spend their conversations"solving the world's problems",while the womenfolk gossip in the kitchen.

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In my focus groups and interviews,most English males initially claimed that they did not gossip,while most of the female readily admitted that they did.

On further questioning,however,the difference turned out to be more a matter of semantics than practice:What the women were happy to call"gossip",the men defined as"exchanging information".

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