Actually, that "words spoken by a women vs. words spoken by a man" statistic is completely false, based on cultural stereotypes. There is no study that confirms the numbers. Unfortunately, a lot of otherwise intelligent people bought the phony statistic hook, line and sinker.

A recent study performed on college students showed that there really isn't much of a difference between how much men and women talk; both use about 16000 words per day. There's a link to the article here: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/705/1