Are women's lives valued more than mens?

Question

The govt pumps many times more money into research for women only deceases, than it does for mens. Also, the media, which often works hand in hand with the govt when it sees fit, will have a 100 articles regarding female health, before you see a male 1. Does this all now mean that mens lives are of less value than our ladies are.

Please also bear in mind that mens serious predicaments, amount pretty equally to womens.

nothing like equality eh girls

Who said anything about being preferred over women, this is just an observation, from a bloke who hears women wanting equality all the time, as it should be naturally

Rockford is spot on, sense at last!!

I know men dont have breast cancer, how many women do you know who have testicular or prostate cancer,

I never knew viagra was tested to be a heart drug first. I bet theres loads of stuff out there that wasnt meant to do what it now does.

pvmptaj12, So im ignorant eh, do you not reckon drugs were tested on men because we were used as lab rats, im talking about proper research into particular things, the fact men were given all kinds of drugs does not mean we benefitted from them, it just meant men put up with the after effects when it went wrong. If its ignorance your after, look a little closer to home, and men take the care of the family very seriously, and who exactly decided we cant multi task, i work along side men who operate upto 6 jobs at once, and still have time to smoke chat and think about the naxt one.

Answer 1

I think that is because all the studies in the past such as heart disease were done on men only, So, they may be trying to get data now on how medicine effects woman. There really should always be three studies going on at all times, one for men, one for woman and one for children.

Answer 2

Wow, I can't believe the answers you've gotten. They really stuck with the whole re-population theme. I wonder how many of them would agree that if there were only two men and 50 women that each of the men should be able to sleep with 25 women each - and the women shouldn't mind as part of their civic duty. I suspect that if you even suggested that women's primary purpose under any circumstance should be baby-making machines - they would try to make it so there was only one man left. It is worse than you probably realize. Check out sentencing data at the United States Dept. of Justice website for fun some day. Vehicular manslaughter for instance... if the victim is a man the average sentence is 3.6 years. If the victim is a woman the average sentence is 7.3 years or just over twice as long. Anyway, on to why... Emotionally we (as a society) still consider women to be the weaker sex. We have legislated equality - but that has basically been an exercise in affirmative action. What we feel and what we think are two different things. One last example, it doesn't talk about the worth of a life - but it does talk about double standards and that is where the problem comes from - the difference in the worth of life is just the ultimate double standard. The civil rights act states that separate but equal is illegal for a number of reasons - including gender. We aren't real informed in this country - but most people know this - separate but equal is wrong. Enter Title XIIII. Title 9 says, at its core, that for every dollar a college spends on a mens sporting program, they must spend a dollar of a comparable womens program. What happened then is that colleges that had a mens basketball and hockey program often had to choose one because they couldn't afford to run a mens hockey program and a womens hockey program and a mens basketball program and a womens basketball program. Why don't we have one team (separate but equal being illegal and all anyway) and if you are good enough to make it - you make it, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman? Well... you already know the reason now don't you? Peace out :)

Answer 3

Maybe the media have 100:1 ratio of articles on women and men's health because women are much more likely to go to the doctor of something's wrong with them, whereas men (as a rule) often don't like discussing health issues. I don't know enough about the ratios of money spent on healthcare to give a certain opinion, but it could again be because there just aren't that many, for example, testicular cancer action groups lobbying the government compared with breast cancer groups. men need to get more involved with their health and force the government to spend more money on them.

Historically, slavewomen of child-bearing age were always valued far higher than men of the same age, because they could (obviously) reproduce the stock pretty much for free. Clearly that doesn't apply now though, but there are probably still remnants of that kind of thinking that women are the carriers of the human race etc. Yet i think even considering this, the biggest problem is men often ignoring their health (if they don't make a fuss about it, why on earth is the government going to bother spending money on it?).

Answer 4

No, on a worldwide basis
men come out on top, girls are seen as not worth educating in some places
in other places women have abortions if they're carrying girls ,as their culture won't value them.

If it is true that Mens health issues are not being advertised as well as womens then I hope it can be corrected: join a "Well Man " pressure group ,or create one. Daytime T.V. is quite good at picking up health issues for men and women: today a guy came on and talked about the tongue cancer and how he was raising awareness about it.

M : )

Answer 5

The govt pumps money into female health research BECAUSE female health issues were not adequately addressed for YEARS and years....
Gender specific studies were rarely done despite the differences in male/female metabolism..
So its about time ALL geneders received an equal share of the $$pot

Answer 6

The govt doesnt pump money into research only for women its actualy the companies themselves mainly because most guys could have their leg hanging off and still wont go to see their GP for 5 minutes where as womens health is big business as they tend to worry more.
Basically men are just to lazy to worry i should know i have not been to my GP for over 6 years coz i cant be bothered

Answer 7

You are very ignorant; It has not been till recently that they actually have been experimenting with women.
When they used to test drugs; they always would use man; they finally realized men and women have different affects in their bodies with drugs, and have different symptoms when having specific problems; such as; heart attacks.
Male doctors treat men much more seriously then women. They will tell them a problem is in their head, when a man they will order tests.
where have you been.
A women is very important: she is the main caregiver, she has the children, takes care of everyone in the house, can do multiple things at a time. They are needed. It's just beginning to be realized.
I think women could survive a lot longer without men, then man could survive without women.

Answer 8

That is actually a good point. If I could venture a guess, it is not so much a matter of valuing one gender over another, but rather men do not wish to share their problems. Men typically wish to deal with their own issues. This is the difference.

Answer 9

You know whats funny....it doesn't matter what you're trying to study...a lot of times you come up with treatments or cures for something you had no intention of coming up with.

Viagra is the perfect example. It was supposed to be a heart medication. In fact researchers are still trying to make it a heart medication.

Answer 10

Women - 1 egg a month and have a womb

Men - Millions of sperm everytime we *ahem* (which in a month, lets face it boys, adds up to an amazingly large amount of little swimmers)

By my reckoning that means it would only take one sperm donating man to fertilise a good 100,000+ women in a month (I'm talking IVF, so don't go looking for the job vaccancy!)

So on balance if we're looking at long term health issues, i'd invest in women too..

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oh, and what Nikita said too :-)