The ability to converse is a gift granted  exclusively to mankind. However, men and women often have different agendas for  their conversations. While women converse to foster a connection and identify  with others, men converse to resolve a problem, or compete with others. Since  men and women have different agendas for conversing, their communication styles  differ as well, sometimes causing a lack of clarity or misunderstandings. As  Joe Tannenbaum writes in his book, Male and Female realities women are  “expressers” and men are “resolvers” (Tingley, 27).