Outlining women's issues despite the relevance

CJ writes " The Associated Press has an odd propensity for outlining issues relevant to women despite the relevance of the data (or study). In this article, one would read the headline and assume that increased driving speeds are killing women. However at the end of the article it states that "highway deaths may be increasing for women but nearly 28,000 men died in automobile crashes in 2001, compared with more than 13,000 women. Obvioulsy many factors contribute to this disparity (such as more men on the road driving), but to frame this study as a isssue relevant to women while more than double the amount of men are dying on the roads illustrates a common yet slight double standard in contemporary journalism. Post how you think the headline would read if the genders were to be reversed..."

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