Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?