It turns out vocal fry, what the Internet is reporting as a new linguistic trend "creeping" into women's speech isn't much of a trend at all. A writeup of the research describes the speech pattern as ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That data also indicates men may have employed vocal fry more than women in the recent past. To fill in some of these research ...

I do suspect it's more the pitch than the gender that makes vocal fry more noticable. I'd imagine people wouldn't notice as much vocal fry from deep talking ladies like Lucille Ball or Bea Arthur as ...