title_body: How does Láadan aim to express the views of women more than natural Western languages? Láadan was created, according to Wikipedia, to try an experiment in seeing if a constructed language designed specifically for women could better express the views of women better than natural Western languages:
  
  
    Láadan is a feminist constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, specifically to determine if development of a language aimed at expressing the views of women would shape a culture; a subsidiary hypothesis was that Western natural languages may be better suited for expressing the views of men than women.
  
  
  How does the language aim to express this difference? What differences make it better for women to express their views than in natural Western languages?
  
  What steps are the creators of Láadan taking to make sure that women can express themselves better in Láadan than in natural Western languages, that it will be different from those natural languages?
upvoted_answer: I am not an expert on Láadan but I was also researching it in the context of feminist communication.  This is what I found based on that research.
  
  The idea behind creating Láadan as a "feminist" language was to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to see if natural languages were biased toward expressing male communication, but the language's creator, Suzette Haden Elgin, was unable to prove or disprove the hypotheses she set out to study because of low adoption of the language.  As far as I can tell, even Elgin remains uncertain on the effect of these approaches to facilitating feminine communication.
  
  The distinctive characteristics that strike me are
  
  
  It is a tonal language - This seems to have been very deliberate in the development of Láadan. Does this facilitate feminine thought with particularly more clarity than non-tonal languages?  I am not sure, and I couldn't find any reputable research indicating whether or not that is the case, but I suspect that when the language was being developed by Elgin she did not make it a tonal language by accident.  Since her hypotheses about the implications of Láadan on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis remain unconfirmed, we probably don't know for sure.
  The language has emotional context markers.  This is presumably meant to aid in the expression of subtle emotional context to avoid ambiguity that leaves a dialogue open to interpretation and reliant on context clues.
  
  
  -d anger marker
  -th pain marker
  -li love marker
  -lan celebration marker
  -da joke marker
  -di education marker
  -ya fear marker
  
  The language has many affection words, for example, of love.  Like the other aspects, whether this is truly a facet that favors female communication over male based on empirical evidence is unclear to me, but it certainly satisfies many widely accepted assumptions about differences in male and female thought.  However, it should be noted that many of these assumptions are widely challenged today.  Perhaps men desire more nuanced emotional communication as well but suppress this impulse for cultural reasons. 
  
  
  a love for inanimates
  áayáa mysterious love, not yet known to be welcome or unwelcome
  áazh love for someone sexually desired in the past, but not anymore
  ab love for one liked but not respected
  ad love for one respected but not liked
  éme love for one neither liked nor respected
  am love for one related by blood
  ashon love for one not related by blood, but kin of the heart
  aye love that is unwelcome and a burden
  azh love for one sexually desired now
  oham love for that which is holy
  sham love for the child of one’s body
  
  
  
  These text examples were taken from this online PDF resource.