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From: dgross@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: what feminism has done FOR men
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Date: 16 Nov 90 16:40:25 GMT
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You might be interested in this little tidbit.  Last year, the gap
between the life expectancies of men and women narrowed for the first
time since early in this century.

Men's death rates for cancer and heart disease dropped in the 1980s,
while women's cancer rates increased and their heart disease rates
dropped only slightly.

Frederick W. Hollman of the Census Bureau said a major contributor to
this was the changing patterns of disease as more and more women took
up smoking and moved into traditionally male-dominated jobs and
lifestyles.

"If behavior (between the sexes) is converging, then you have to
expect mortality rates to converge also."

Look for this to happen again in the 1990s, unless, of course, we go
to war in the Middle East, which might screw up the statistics a bit.
:-(

We've got a long way to go, baby, but we've started out anyway...


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"`You'd think they were shot dead,' the president [Novice G. Fawcette, of
 Ohio State University] said, indicating annoyance at the publicity."
	News item, May 2, 1970, two days before the Kent State shootings.