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I don't want to add to the confusion, but I think it is fair to say that in Kansai (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding area) the line between women's and men's speech is more gray. There are certainly words that men don't use and women don't use, but things like sentence ender わ and using うち are unisex in Kansai, where that isn't true in Tokyo or some other parts in Japan.