Auggie wrote:mothra wrote:Sprintcyclist wrote:Equality ?
As you are a taciturn man with considerable inclination towards being morally and ethically outrageous, i could run a few paths on what you are actually floating here.
I'm choosing to be optimistic and going with you speculating that young women are feeling pressures previously reserved for young men, resultant from career equality.
I contest that. For a great many reasons.
Pertinent to this issue though is method. Women and girls have always attempted suicide in comparable rates to men and boys, it's just that the men and boys tend to employ more violent, irredeemable methods, like gun shot, hanging, etc.
Women and girls tend to overdoses and self-harm. In other words, open to intervention.
What this study suggests to me is that young women are opting for more 'final' methods.
Do you have any evidence to show that women have always 'attempted' suicide in comparable rates to men and boys?
Evidence is abundant. It is well known and accepted.
But here. Ground zero:
GenderIn every state and territory of Australia, suicide is much more common among males than females, with the ratio standing at 3:1 in 2012.[16]
According to hospital data, females are more likely to deliberately injure themselves than males. In the 2008–2009 financial year, 62% of those who were hospitalised due to self-harm were female.[17]
Researchers have attributed the difference between attempted and completed suicides among the sexes to males using more lethal means to end their lives.[18]
Suicide rates for both males and females have generally decreased since the mid-90s with the overall suicide rate decreasing by 23% between 1999 and 2009. Suicide rates for males peaked in 1997 at 23.6 per 100,000 but have steadily decreased since then and stood at 14.9 per 100,000 in 2009. Female rates reached a high of 6.2 per 100 000 in 1997. Rates declined after that and was 4.5 per 100 000 in 2009.[19] Comparing sex differences in suicide rates need to consider differences across the lifespan. Since 2003, for females, suicide rates range from 4 – 6 suicides per 100 000 with no apparent age association, whilst for men suicide rates range from 10 – 30 suicides per 100 000 with substantive differences across the lifespan; those males in middle and older age report substantially increased rates of suicide.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Australia