A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices

'In the end, the word “shrill” is not about the off-putting volume, pitch, or timbre of a woman’s voice—it’s an attempt to silence a voice.' Via NewYorker

the large number of women running for President this year, the word “shrill” is enjoying a resurgence in the national vocabulary, following its previous heyday, as an insult hurled atduring the 2016 Presidential campaign. This spike in usage is hardly a revelation; women who speak publicly and challenge authority have long been dismissed as “shrill” or “grating.

At the time, voice technology was still in flux, and many regulatory decisions proved to have lasting consequences. The proliferation of AM radio stations in the early nineteen-twenties led to frequent signal interference, and by 1927 Congress decided to intervene by regulating the bandwidth allotted to each station.

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