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Stopped over at our friendly neighborhood sexist Shine site to see this article…

Why women live longer

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/why-women-live-longer-than-men-2402031/

If you continue on to Babble.com

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/10/21/women-are-indispensable-life-expectancy-health-and-wellness/

“But on balance, he thinks women are better at repair. In fact, some of the biological forces that drive men from a reproductive standpoint — like testosterone — aren’t so good for overall health. And he says (don’t try this at home. not intended for health-promotion purposes) that castration has actually been shown to make men live longer.”
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So instead of just proposing castration….why don’t we talk about a real issue like funding.

For example the exposure of breast cancer awareness is everywhere and the participation from govt. grants for research is so expansive…

Take these statistics from 2009.

$685,036,901 was invested in all sorts of Breast Cancer Research

Now take a look at the figure for Prostate Cancer research: $340,951,875

Look at the funding for Ovarian Cancer research compared to Testicular

Ovarian : $126,317,833 vs Testicular: $6,941,688 (94% difference)

Cervical + Vaginal : $80,044,560 + $945,487 vs Penis: $1,463,546 (98% difference)

http://fundedresearch.cancer.gov/

This is just Cancer research…so if these trends are so prolific with one type of disease imagine what is truly is across the board with other diseases.

The messages of support and awareness seems terribly xenophobic and one sided IMHO.

On a positive note though there are groups that do have the opposite gender in mind.

http://menagainstbreastcancer.org/

http://www.womenagainstprostatecancer.org/

Last time I’ve checked, I haven’t seen much of discrimination from the federal government when it comes for the employment and their pay scales. The federal health agency spends more money on women’s health than on men’s. According to the federal statistics there are 39 states that have an office of women’s health and only six have one for men. A search of more than 3,000 medical journals listed in Index Medicus found that 23 articles were written on women’s health for each one written on men’s. Although a woman is only 14 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than a man is from prostate cancer, funding for breast cancer research is 660 percent greater than funding for prostate cancer research. Even the post office has gotten into the act: there is only one disease for which you can buy a postage stamp and the profits will go to research to cure the disease: breast cancer, even though heart disease kills millions more men prematurely.
It does not seem like discrimination to me.
Is it really the truth that women make $.75 for every dollar that men earn?
If an employer has to pay a man a dollar for the same work a woman would do for seventy cents, why would anyone hire a man?” And if it were due to male bosses undervaluing women, wouldn’t an all-female business soon put a male-dominated one out of business?
It just doesn’t make sense to me
Traveller glass ceiling is a myth when equating for job difficulty, unpleasantness, hours per week worked, years of experience, etc., women earn more than men for the same work. Jobs as computer programmers pay well but require never ending training in highly technical material and long, deadline-driven days cogitating at maximum in isolation. Few women are willing to do that work, so 75 percent of programmers are men. Jobs in sweltering, being prison guards, sanitation workers, crane opperators, masons, clanging, carcinogenic iron foundries pay well, but few women are willing to do that work. According to the Jobs Rated Almanac, fewer than one percent(!) of ironworkers are women.
Baba Yaga, you are greatly mistaking. I used to have a great respect for you, until you attacked me. I was just defending myself against your verbal abuse aimed against me. So, don’t confuse my despise for you and for a woman’s issues. I used to volunteer for the NOW organization while in college and for the Abuse shelters for battered women.
When I have daughters I want them to be treated based on their actions. I want them to be treated equally to men on the work field. When I have daughters I want them to be treated based on their actions. I want them to be treated equally to men on the work field. I work as a teacher and my pay is equal to all female teachers who have started at the same time as me. So, I don’t believe it and I work for private school and not some public school.
Baba Yafa I have never called you a feminazi or a lesbian. NEVER. Show me porof where I called you that.
I olny called you a b***, because you called me a Chauvinist pig (when I am not one) nor have ever been one.
Sorry for the misspelled words. I typed to fast and didn’t proof read anything. What are you trying to prove by posting my question from before? The contact of that question was the same as the one right now. We do not need the feminist movement in today’s society where the women are treated equally to the men.
Wreckless, 11% of all Fortune-500 senior executives are women. Now, you may ask why such a smaller number. Well accroding to The primary reason for the 11% figure is that men, on average, are willing to devote more time to their career. And time it takes. A study conducted by Dr. Warren Farrell (presient of NOW and the only man to hold such postion) The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs, found that the average CEO works 58 hours per week. Fortune 500 CEOs likely work even more. Most women make different choices. The October 10, 2004 lead story on 60 Minutes and the September 2003 New York Times Magazine story documented that a majority even of Ivy- and Stanford-educated female alumni did not work full time. Harvard Business School reports that only 38% of its female MBA graduates, during their childbearing years, work full-time.
Baba Yaga again it was your response and not mine. You have not showed me where I called you a lesbian. Plus, it is unfair for you to not post the complete remark where I provided books on the topic to show that societies place standards on women rights. I really do not like it when people do not post the complete replies and just pick at sentence that best suits their needs.
Pandora, I bow my head to you. Thank you for volunteering to serve, protect, and safe guard my freedom. I hope to one day see you as a general or maybe even as a secretary of defense. Good luck to you.
Baba Yaga, I have never said that English was my native language. I have immigrated to USA couple of years ago and am still learning English. When I came to this awesome country I only knew one word which was, “hello.” FYI English is not the only language in the world. The language that I speak over 300 million people speaks it. If you would like I can debate with you in Russian and you will quickly see that my writing skills are in par with my verbal skills. Also, I never said that I teach in English, but I do teach in RUSSIAN and yes I am a teacher so Deal with it.

There were 185,895 men diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005. (The second leading cause of death, among men.) There were 186,467 diagnosed breast cancer cases in 2005. Why does breast cancer research get twice the funding, and nearly all of the media spotlight?

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/statistics/

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/