How can we study gender through the lens of communication and communication through the lens of gender?

 How can we study gender through the lens of communication and communication through the lens of gender?

This question sounds a bit complicated but the answer is really quite simple...

Wood's definition describes communication as a dynamic, systemic process in which meanings are created and reflected in and through humans' interactions with symbols. So... communication can be studied through the lense of gender just by examining the language we use on an everyday basis. The same goes for studying gender through the lense of communication; members of different genders are all so different which means the meanings created through their interaction with symbols (communication) will also be different. And this is where the quest to understand communication through the lens of gender and gender through the lense of communication begins.