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Title: Alcohol Consumption Among Women Is on the Rise
Post by: rangerrebew on July 27, 2018, 02:01:36 pm

Alcohol Consumption Among Women Is on the Rise
By Jennifer Clopton
 

July 18, 2018 -- Laura McKowen says she enjoyed drinking alcohol before she became a mother and would imbibe a few times a week as part of a successful advertising career and active social life. But she says her problem drinking really started after she gave birth to a daughter in 2009.

“The drinking changed for me then,” she says. “I was struggling really hard to adjust to things: being a new mom, a cross-country move, losing my job. My nerves were shot, so I drank more, thinking it would help me sleep, help me cope, but it made me worse.”

https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180718/alcohol-consumption-among-women-is-on-the-rise (https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180718/alcohol-consumption-among-women-is-on-the-rise)

Title: Re: Alcohol Consumption Among Women Is on the Rise
Post by: rangerrebew on July 27, 2018, 02:05:14 pm

This should be no surprise for women who want to be in the dog eat dog, high pressure work in the traditional jobs of the men's world.  The stress to perform and give your all may be too much for people who were not trained to be in that world, and here I include men who were not raised to eat dog - so to speak.