“Women suppress a lot of their sides. It’s a form of “code-switching” – a term to describe how one speaks and behaves differently in order to match an intended audience. Code switching is, at heart, a survival mechanism: a way of showing, at any particular moment, that you fit in, you’re not a threat, you belong.”

“Women suppress a lot of their sides. It’s a form of “code-switching” – a term to describe how one speaks and behaves differently in order to match an intended audience. Code switching is, at heart, a survival mechanism: a way of showing, at any particular moment, that you fit in, you’re not a threat, you belong.”

— Anne Helen Petersen