Women often have higher-pitched voices. Due to unconscious or implicit biases, we might think that higher-pitched voices make women sound less threatening. However, women with higher-pitched voices can also sound less credible. They may be criticized that they don't project confidence. As a result, such perceptions can have a significant impact on women in the pharmaceutical workplace.
Advice directed at women often includes voice coaching to deepen their voices. By contrast, rather than changing the pitch of their voices, we suggest that women can project confidence in other important ways. All women's voices, no matter their pitch, should be heard and normalized so that society no longer considers anything inherently negative or wrong with a higher-pitched voice.
