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by Anonymous User on 04:15 PM December 17th, 2004 EST (#1)
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...that since men die of more things, more often than women (IE heart disease, etc.) the media would be all over it.
Well..., they would be if they were OBJECTIVE.
But to watch the mainstream news media one would think that the only diseases out there are aids and breast cancer.
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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by crescentluna
(evil_maiden @ yahoo.com)
on 03:56 AM December 18th, 2004 EST (#2)
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Isn't it the AVERAGE age, which is shuffled a bit because more baby boys die of SIDS and childhood accident than girls? I could be wrong, but I thought that if you study people who are already elderly the male and female death rates even out a little bit more.
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by Anonymous User on 10:48 AM December 18th, 2004 EST (#3)
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"Isn't it the AVERAGE age.."
No. Men are at much greater risk from cardiac and cerebrovascular disease than women. At a certain advanced age, more women than men have these diseases because at that stage the men are dead.
Hotspur
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by The_Beedle on 12:02 PM December 20th, 2004 EST (#4)
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Men are much more likely to be killed on the job as well, (and much more likely to die violently) but the life expectancy of men is still significantly lower than women even if they aren't killed by accident or violence.
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Here's a quote from a report of 5-03. Read the blurb on the report here:
http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0203/May19_03/22.sht ml
Notice that the article makes a very good case for men being in great need healthwise but concludes that women are really the ones who are at risk! LOL they say: "Comparing the health of men to the health of women does not deny or minimize the pressing need to reduce health and social inequalities for women, especially women of color, he says." Unbelieveable.
Here's the quote about men and health:
At every age, American males have poorer health and a higher risk of mortality than females, according to a University report published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
"Men have higher age-adjusted death rates than women for the 15 leading causes of death in the U.S., with the exception of Alzheimer's disease," says sociologist David R. Williams, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Social Research. "And both Black and white men have death rates at least twice as high as women for accidents, suicide, cirrhosis of the liver and homicide."
So, "At every age, American males have poorer health" but it is the women who really need special attention???? Typical.
Do we have True Equality?
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