Women's Lib Update

Experts: Women are drinking more, DUIs are up

Aug 6, 2009 (5:05p CDT)
By LISA A. FLAM (Associated Press Writer)


Highlights:


Men still drink more than women and are responsible for more drunken-driving cases. But the gap is narrowing,
and among the reasons cited are that women are feeling greater pressures at work and home,
they are driving more, and they are behaving more recklessly.

"Younger women feel more empowered, more equal to men, and have been beginning to exhibit
the same uninhibited behaviors as men," said Chris Cochran of the California Office of Traffic Safety.

Another possible reason cited for the rising arrests: Police are less likely to let women off the hook these days.





One federal study found that the number of women who reported abusing alcohol (having at least four drinks in a day)
rose from 1.5 percent to 2.6 percent over the 10-year period that ended in 2002. For women ages 30 to 44,
Schuler's age group, the number more than doubled, from 1.5 percent to 3.3 percent.




Unlike men, women tend to drink at home and alone, which allows them to conceal a problem more easily.

Because of this, they seek treatment less often than men, and when they do, it is at a later stage, often when
something catastrophic has already happened, said Dr. Petros Levounis

"Our society has taught us that women have an extra burden to be the perfect mothers and
perfect wives and perfect daughters and perfect everything," Levounis said.
"They tend to go to great lengths to keep everything intact from an external viewpoint while internally,
they are in ruins."

In the current recession, women's incomes have become more important because so many men have lost their jobs,
experts say. Men are helping out more at home, but working mothers still have the bulk of the child rearing
responsibilities.

"Because of that, they have a bigger burden then most men do," said clinical psychologist Carol Goldman.
"We have to look at the pressures on women these days. They have to be the supermom."





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