Research shows that people prefer listening to instructions from deep, rich baritones over nags from high tittering trills.

It's especially hard to be a high voiced ladytype in politics, a world that values men that talk like Ronald Reagan and look like an elderly Ken doll with an NRA membership. What's a lady to do?

The Guardian reflects on a bit of research that found that voters prefer listening to male voices over female voices, and it asks an important but uncomfortable question: If voters prefer candidates with lower voices, do women, need to lower their voices in order to get elected? Margaret Thatcher did.

Does the Margaret Thatcher standard apply to past, present, and ascendant American female politicians? Let's use our magical time machine to compare.