the ideas of hysteria has originated from this idea that women's maladies, a women's malaise,

is linked to the uterus. A lot of their notions of the emotionality was also linked to their uterus,

or the problems with our uterus, or our womb, which is a centre.

You're listening to Doing It Right with me, Pandora Sykes,

a podcast where I talk to experts about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.

There's no such thing as the right life, but what might we be getting wrong? In this series, series three, I'll be exploring sleep, the science of emotions and fast fashion,

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Weepy women and angry men.

It's a cliché for a reason, right?

But what if men and women didn't experience different emotions?

What if they felt exactly the same but was simply conditioned to express it differently?

Professor Prague-Yaragawal is a data and behavioural scientist, a visiting professor of

social inequities and injustice at Loughborough University, and the founder of a research think

tank, The 50% Project. She is also the author of five books, most recently hysterical,

exploding the myth of gendered emotions. In this episode, we talk about

whether women really do cry more than men, the myth of the hysterical woman and the role

the uterus has historically played, how emotional expression varies over cultures and societies

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