Deborah Tannen

• Failure to Communicate

  By Olivia Mellan  |  February 1, 2007

  When a mother visits a grown-up daughter in the daughter's home, can the mother surrender her need to be in charge? Does she criticize the...

• Gender Matters

  By Olivia Mellan  |  September 1, 2005

  A reporter asked me some years ago if men's greater willingness to bungee-jump and take other big risks might be due to some fundamental difference...

• Typecasting

  By Staff Writer  |  March 1, 2005

  Innate gender differences prevent more women from succeeding in science and math careers. An old stereotype, you say? Yet Harvard University President Lawrence Summers put...

• Impersonal Finance

  By Staff Writer  |  May 1, 2004

  In this brave new world of 2004, it's generally assumed that catering to gender differences around money is pass?. Worse yet, it's not PC. Everyone...