![]() ![]() ![]() "So alcohol is more toxic to us in the same amount as men are drinking." She means dangerously toxic, too – women are more vulnerable than men when it comes to developing alcohol-induced liver damage and dying from cirrhosis. ![]() "If women drink the same amount as men, we can expect to feel more serious effects – we just aren't as big, and we don't have as much water in our bodies," she says. So as well as me being a few inches and a few stone lighter than him, I'm not going to be able to process this alcohol as well tomorrow. I get the sense that another drink will lead to a hangover tomorrow, but buy another pint of IPA anyway and apologise to my liver – which, according to Dr Staddon, is much smaller than Sam's. My blood alcohol level is at 0.073, Rosy's is 0.008 and Sam's is 0.057. READ: Can You Reverse the Horrible Long-Term Effects of Drugs and Booze with Exercise, Food and Vitamins?īack in the pub, it's 21:00. And then there are all of the other reasons that incline people to use alcohol as a drug, such as mental health issues – which can happen to men as well as women, of course." "So the expectations that we have of ourselves are very high. "It's really hard work trying to keep up a home, which a lot of women are still doing to a bigger extent than men," she says. I send her off to buy another round and remember what Jeremy Corbyn said recently when he criticised Britain's after-work drinking culture as sexist – discriminating against mothers who feel forced into going to the pub in case they miss out on a promotion.Īre women today actually only drinking as much as men to conform to work norms, in the hope it brings them professional success? Dr Patsy Staddon, who helps to run Bristol service Women's Independent Alcohol Support, says the stress of balancing work and family life really is driving women to drink more. Sam's is the same, and my sister Rosy's is a measly 0.004. One hour and one drink down, my blood alcohol content is at 0.037. Bottled lagers, for example, were initially marketed to women who wanted to drink with men after work, but wanted a lighter alternative to pints of bitter and ale. The alcohol industry followed the money and began marketing drinks to the new generation of working women. It all started in the 1960s, he says, when the rise of feminism meant that "there were fewer taboos about women going out and being in social spaces doing the kinds of things that men do… more women were working and had disposable income". "And one of the consequences of that is that in activities like drinking, women's behaviour has come closer to men's." "In many aspects of life we've become less patriarchal," he said. Sam and I order a pint each, Rosy a rum and coke, and we get to drinking.Įarlier today I spoke to James Nicholls, Director of Policy at Alcohol Research UK, to get his opinion on why women are drinking more. I begin my research at 19:00 in the pub with Sam, who – alongside me and my sister, Rosy – will be the other participant in my study. To investigate why this has happened, I decide to carry out my own, highly scientific analysis. Nowadays, they found, men born between 18 are just 1.1 times more likely to drink than women the great gender booze gap has nearly closed. A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of New South Wales found that men born in the early 1900s were 2.2 times more likely to drink than women. We're here, getting pissed for science, because women are now drinking nearly as much as men. ![]()
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