UpDate - Vol. Chances are if you're a man, some of the things you think are funny a woman might consider sick. Humor is just one of the many areas in which men and women communicate differently. That's the word from Rene Shepley Ragan, president of Shepley Resource Systems and one of the speakers at the upcoming 1992 Delaware Women's Conference.
Men often use humor to communicate.
They can use it to really zap someone, but with humor they don't have to be held accountable. Everyone laughs, but the message gets through. A woman boss, who might be much more concerned about an employee's feelings, would seldom use humor that way. Men use humor, like sports, to bond. Men tell jokes, remember jokes and use them more in conversations.