Edit: Looks like the evidence isn't on my side on this one. Ok, it's been addressed; I've changed my mind on the matter.
Nearly every study shows that men talk as much as women, if not more than women. However, men see their talk as "important networking and collaboration" and women's talk as "unimportant trivia and gossip"
It wouldn't matter if women made that joke about men because we have a ton of privilege just by nature of our gender. Look at the context here! This is a company that has oppressed an entire gender and it just continues. And then this shit. So why does it even matter if women said that about men? And would they? And are they doing stuff like that systemically, like men do, systematically since the dawn of civilization putting women in a lesser role?
- A man
"It is statistically true that women speak more than men" [1], therefore it is wholly appropriate for this guy to crack this comment as a joke, interrupting a woman talking about the benefits of more women on the board, at an event specifically about sexual harassment.
Is that your argument?
[1] Is bullshit, by the way. Studies vary widely, and in some studies indicate that it depends on context to a degree that the conclusion that "women talk more" is basically meaningless.
I am not aware of studies validating the quality of conversations between sexes. Which means someone should record what a random sample of CEOs say and reasonably classify it.