Men Get the First, Last and Every Other Word on Earnings Calls
- Women are elusive on quarterly calls, Prattle analysis shows
- Male speakers made 5 million of 5.4 million comments on calls
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Forget the board room. Women’s voices are barely even present on conference calls.
Corporate America’s most important publicly-conducted discussions -- the quarterly earnings calls held by almost all listed companies -- are dominated by men, who talk more often and speak longer than women, according to research done at Bloomberg’s request by Prattle, a company that provides automated research by parsing central bank and corporate communications.