Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Unhealthy gender norms

I strongly agree with this statement:

"It's cool to be a man that smokes and drinks — who drives a fast motorbike, or fast cars," she says. "If you were really serious about saving lives, you would spend money tackling unhealthy gender norms" that promote these risky behaviors.

Sarah Hawkes from the University of London's Institute of Global Health says that there is very little focus on men's health issues, yet, of the ten most prominent health problems around the world, they are all more common among men.

via Ann Althouse

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