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What's driving more women to drink?
Not only is the gap shrinking between men and women who drink, but ISU researchers found variations in the amount and frequency women drink based on age, race, education, marital status and other factors. Susan Stewart, professor of sociology, says the research compared the experiences of women in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s to see how life changes and events influence drinking.
Overall, 52 percent of women reported drinking around seven days in the last month and averaged just over two drinks a day. Stewart; Gloria Jones Johnson, University Professor of sociology; and Cassandra Dorius, assistant professor of human development and family studies, analyzed data from The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. The survey follows thousands of people starting as teens and into adulthood.
While women still drink less than men, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, there is little evidence to explain their increase in consumption. Stress, social acceptance of alcohol and life changes are often cited as potential factors, but Stewart says this is largely anecdotal. By comparing alcohol consumption across social categories, the researchers want to provide a greater understanding of why women drink as well as dispel some myths.
"Some of our findings really break down stereotypes, such as alcohol use is highest among poor women and underrepresented women," Stewart said. "We found that not to be true. White women and women with more education and financial means have much higher rates of alcohol consumption."
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Alcohol is the third-leading preventable cause of death in the U.S., according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Approximately 88,000 people die every year from alcohol-related causes, which is more than opioid overdoses (60,000) and motor vehicle crashes (34,000). ISU researchers point to the physical, mental and emotional health issues associated with alcohol use as important reasons for this work.
"After decades of steady increases, women's life expectancy has leveled off in the last five years partly as a result of increased alcohol consumption," Dorius said. "As the main caretakers of children, aging parents and extended family members, women's alcohol use can have lasting effects on the family."
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 22 2019, @11:15PM (1 child)
Interesting take on it, though I'd say our society crushes genuine masculinity just as hard in pursuit of the almighty dollar...which after all is genderless, even though all our currency has mens' faces on it! Seems like a giant eating machine that shits out broken people and makes them fight each other.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday August 23 2019, @09:29AM
Yes, I agree masculine values are crushed, but not as badly. I think masculine values are more often twisted and misrepresented by people like Trump and Epstein.
Anyone who stands up against tyranny and for the weak is going to be put on a list, even if you're a cop.
Which is to say the thousands of people who aided epstein got away with murder and the people who were pounding their fist on the table, like me, saying why can this injustice stand? Are likely to face future persecution for not being corrupt enough, or having a memory longer than 5 minutes.
Totalitarianism, what we are facing, is the death of ALL human values. A good robot adapts and makes no moral judgements on whether a cop is a corrupt, a political party is a cult, or a religion is a mafia. To capitalism, anything that cannot be counted in money form is an externality, it is not even part of the system, it doesn't exist, like the finger of a miner lost in the mine, no pics or it didn't happen, good luck dealing with our 'legal' department.
In my case though, my activism which started out against the drug war, resulted in literally a dozen undercovers and informants coming to the *first* meeting. I only put this together later after I studied all of those people over more than ten years. An undercover was actually *running* a marijuana legalization festival in Joplin, MO, in 2001, it eventually turned out. Creepy guys came too, with rifles in the trunk of their car and in some relationship with a woman who had pscyhological problems and a small child.
So for me, I started out willing to be stand up for something but then for a time I gave up because I thought that only meant I had to wade through asocial kooks, not realizing that the first sign of opposition the system sends a dozen people your way who are specifically chosen to drive everyone else away and burden the leadership dealing with clowns.
And this is how I learned about social engineering the hard way, and this is why I invented the term Reverse Social Engineering, so that even if it takes years, I figure out why things happened the way they did.
Pass it on. Check out the memes on my webpage and Important Definitions. Also anyone who claims to be masculine or just but is not boycotting Victoria's Secret and driving discussion of Israeli spy operations in the united states, is either dumb or a big part of the problem, which is nearly the entire mass media who are running an elaborate smoke screen. Many people like myself have been screaming for years the Epstein thing and things like it are happening, now we see the proof of it and we are supposed to just forget it while the president chides everyone for not being loyal enough to a foreign country. It is a cultural hegemony barring its teeth and trying to hide its true nature.
sorry im typing a lot because well, much learning has made me mad.
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