Saturday, April 10, 2010

Study Says Educated Women Are Heavier Drinkers

Interesting...


I found the following post at Asylum, a self-proclaimed men's lifestyle site whose viewpoint I'm not entirely sure I trust in relation to these kinds of things. The ending remark in the original post sort of threw me off; I haven't included it here since I figure it doesn't have much credibility but feel free to respond accordingly.

A new study reveals that the better a woman does in school, the more likely it is she will grow up and abuse alcohol.

Researchers from the London School of Economics
tracked the lives of roughly 10,000 men and women born during the same week in 1970. They discovered that women who scored "medium or high" marks in primary school were 2.1 times more likely to drink every day as adults than their less academically successful counterparts. Intelligent guys also drink more, but the correlation isn't nearly as extreme.

There are two explanations the researchers offered for this phenomenon. One is that brainy women often delay motherhood, giving them more time to develop a social life based on alcohol consumption; the other is that
higher-achieving females are more likely to work in male-dominated fields, which have cultures that are heavy on drinking.


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