Pamela Fishman conducted an experiment and involved listening to fifty-two hours of pre-recorded conversations between young American couples. Five out of the six subjects were attending graduate school; all subjects were either feminists or sympathetic to the women’s movement, were white, between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. Fishman listened to recordings and concentrated on two characteristics common in women’s dialect, including tag questions for example ”you know?” Experiments The dominance theory States the power imbalance between men and women is due to men being dominant and controlling in their interactions. Dominance theory-Fishman Fishman focuses on some of the features of women’s language considered by Lakoff but interprets them in a very different way.
Dominance theory

The Dominance theory states the power imbalance between Men and Women is due to men being dominant and controlling in their interactions.

English Homework                             Thomas Vandamme

First wave Feminism (1850-1928)
-First organized movement for English feminism was Langham Place Circle
-The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 enabled couples to obtain a divorce through civil proceedings
- Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney became the first women to be arrested in the fight for women's suffrage
- Right to vote was granted to all UK women equally with men
-The Guardianship of Infants Act gave parents equal claims over their children
- Oxford University opened its degrees to women

These are all acts and effects from first wave feminism

Second wave Feminism (1961-1980)
-Fair hiring processes -Affordable child care
-Paid maternity leave -Equal pay act
-Civil rights of 1964/Barred employment discrimination against women
-Contraception for women -Abortion made legal
-Women had big liberation groups
-No fault divorce law -Rise of feminist newspapers
-Margaret thatcher became president

These are all acts and effects from second wave feminism