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According to recent research in the UK, female lecturers are more likely to freeze or become incoherent as compared to their male colleagues while presenting academic papers. It was found that women are usually intimidated by the audience and by the perceived ‘masculinity’ of public speaking. Male respondents in contrast are more confident and did not suffer from similar performance anxiety.
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