Quartz
Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, recently hosted negotiations in her office during the government shutdown. Part of the reason they were finally successful, it might be argued, is because Collins tamped down on interruptions by asking everyone in the meetings to only speak while holding the talking stick. It just may be a low-tech solution to an issue that high-tech sensors are now quantifying: Men speak more often than women in company meetings and around the office, and women are routinely interrupted.