If men had genetically superior immune systems, this would be our rationale for paying more attention to female health, women are fragile, women need protection. However, women’s double-X chromosomes give them a kind of genetic backup system 17 That is, if a woman has a defective gene along one thread of her X chromosome, the […]

Industrialization pulled men away from the farm and family and into the factory, alienating millions of men from their source of love. Industrializa­tion allowed women to be connected with the family and, as we discussed above, increasingly surrounded with fewer children and more conveni­ences to handle those children, more control over whether or not to […]

ITEM The more industrialized a society becomes, the more both sexes’ life expectancies increase. But industrialization increases women’s life expectancy roughly twice as much as men’s.7 In preindustrialized societies (e. g., Italy and Ireland in the nineteenth century), a gap of only one to two years between the life spans of women and men was […]

Is it biology? ITEM In Bangladesh today, men live longer than women. In Harlem today, women live longer than men. Correction. In Harlem, women live much longer than men.1 If botogy is the only variable, why these differences? What our life span tells us about who has the power When we learn that nonwhites have […]

Are men taking responsibility to help themselves express their depression? Hardly. Men are still most likely to buy adventure books, financial journals, and sports magazines that teach men to solve problems, overcome barriers, or repress feelings. There are few men’s shelters, masculist psychologists, men’s crisis lines, or men’s centers. The biggest "men’s center" is San […]

Myth Women experience more depression Fad. Women do not experience more depression, they геюп more depression. New studies hnd that clinicians fail to recognize depres­sion in two thirds of men versus half of women. Women are also more likely than men to be diagnosed as suffering from depression even when it was later discovered they […]

When a teacher I know asked her class, "If you were going to commit suicide, how would you do it?" most of the girls said, "By overdosing on pills or drugs " But half the boys said they would get drunk and either drive off a cliff or into a telephone pole The method the […]

When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being "given up for a younger man.” Being forced into early’ retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a young woman" is for a woman. When that is compounded by forced unemployment, feeling to men like rape feels to a […]

What do you call a Texas oilman?. . . Oh, waiter! JayLeno, "Tonight" show ITEM Once upon a time a woman met a taking frog. The frog said it was under a wicked speB… it was really a Texas oilman. “If you’ll kiss me. youH break the spell.” the frog explained. "Then I’ll love you […]

The suicide class is 91 percent white,2′ usually well educated, and at least middle class. They are the success class. Or at least they were — until they last their job or their savings. But why suicide when I’ve been saying it’s feeling not loved or needed that ‘s the catalyst? Because the men who […]