Women’s long work hours linked to alarming increases in cancer, heart disease

dungone · 2016-06-20T04:27:13+00:00

Just putting this here for the schadenfreude. Turns out that working for a living isn't such a wonderful male privilege, after all.

Incidentally, I am wondering how it is that the researchers came to the conclusion that this doesn't affect men as much. Men have lower life expectancies and higher rates of just about everything, including the vast majority of workplace deaths.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2016-06-20T11:53:46+00:00

Now they are finally starting to have it all.

Let's close that life expectancy and work/life balance gap!

scanspeak · 2016-06-20T11:17:09+00:00

If you want to close that wage gap ladies, get used to working more and putting your own health second to chasing the all mighty dollar. Welcome to male privilege.

HugoBorden · 2016-06-20T09:23:40+00:00

The results among female workers were striking, Dembe said. The analysis found a clear and strong relationship between long hours and heart disease, cancer, arthritis and diabetes.

This is certainly an interesting study. It's obvious to me that stress was the problem. If these women had families, overwork is obviously the reason. If they were single, that could also cause stress. Being single is worse for women.

Men who worked long hours had a higher incidence of arthritis, but none of the other chronic diseases. And those men who worked moderately long hours (41 to 50 hours weekly) had lower risk of heart disease, lung disease and depression than those who worked 40 hours or fewer.

Now, this is certainly a curious finding. Work is good for you? (If you're a man.)

I've now thought for a long time that feminism oppresses women. The whole idea that 'you can do it all' puts women in the overwork hellhole. So it's not like just men are the victims of feminism. Feminism is a philosophy from hell that is destroying this society.

Florient · 2016-06-20T05:30:58+00:00

Men who worked long hours had a higher incidence of arthritis, but none of the other chronic diseases.

Because the rates are already so much higher for men to begin with. Basic rule of arithmetic exponential property.

BDMR_lurker · 2016-06-20T14:15:08+00:00

Easy fix: replace hourly wages with daily wages, so that women can work shorter hours and get paid the same as male colleagues for a day of work.

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Actually, it seems that France came up with the idea already. Notice that this law sets an upper but no lower limit on hours worked.

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Seriously: maybe there's an acquired reason for the difference in life expectancy, like men always having worked themselves into an early grave.

Also: this 'study' is crap, as they're not testing a pre-formulated hypothesis, but simply sifting through data in search of a coincidence.

Do enough tests, and you'll eventually find something with "a significant P value". Around 5 every 100 tests, actually (assuming the common 5% risk).

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NB: DOI for this study is 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000810, for those who can / want to access it.

shadowbanByAutomod · 2016-06-20T19:48:45+00:00

Welcome to the joys of the working world ladies.

#equality

autotldr · 2016-06-21T09:07:50+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)

Work weeks that averaged 60 hours per week or more over three decades appear to triple the risk of diabetes, cancer, heart trouble and arthritis for women, according to new research from The Ohio State University.

Prior to this study, efforts to examine a connection between long hours and chronic illness have had mixed results, in large part because it's difficult to obtain long-term data on work patterns and health, Dembe said.

They averaged the self-reported hours worked each week over 32 years and compared the hours worked to the incidence of eight chronic diseases: heart disease, cancer, arthritis or rheumatism, diabetes or high blood sugar, chronic lung disease including bronchitis or emphysema, asthma, depression and high blood pressure.

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Title	Women’s long work hours linked to alarming increases in cancer, heart disease
Author	dungone
Upvotes	12
Comments	22
Date	June 20, 2016 4:18 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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