Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype

Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."

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[Shavano]

I never knew it had a name, but I've experienced this before in listening to teenage girls speak. It's like an end of the sentence lowering of their voice. I'm curious why they do it or if they even know they're doing it? Is it a learned behavior that they pick up from each other?

Almost all speech patterns are that.

I didn't understand this part:

“Creaky voice is more associated with low-frequency noise, whereas something like breathiness is related to high-frequency noise,” said Brown.

The results: Not only did men use vocal fry more than women, but the use of creaky voice increased with the speaker’s age.

But men naturally have lower voices than women, on average, because of having longer vocal cords. So if you associate it with pitch, you're going to find lower pitches in men than women even if where they speak within their registers is the same.

As for the old men thing. Yeah, that's real, but I always assumed that was physiological, not affected.