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This study deals with Gender Conversation in Workplace Context. The subject of this study were 3 male staff and 3 female staff in Internal Auditor Unit at Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara. The object of this study were the utterances of Male and Female Staff. It specially focused on why are the conversation used by male and female staff as the ways they are. The theory used in this study are based on the features of conversational styles proposed by Tannen (1992), namely status versus support, independence versus intimacy, advice versus understanding, information versus feeling, orders versus proposal, conflict versus compromise. This study used descriptive qualitative method. Having analyzed the data, it was found that male and female staffs used different style in conversation because male and female staffs have different opinion about their status during the conversation. The reason male and female staffs have different characteristics which also lead them having different style in conversation.