Why women drink

If you’ve ever accompanied a girlfriend to happy hour or a monthly book club meeting, it’s hardly a secret, perhaps, that she can make a glass of chardonnay disappear before you can say “cocktail.” But did you ever consider she might be standing at the edge of a liquor cliff? And if you didn’t, “Her Best Kept Secret: Why Women Drink — And How They Can Regain Control” is bound to make you reconsider. Gabrielle Glaser certainly has. 

“I noticed a big change in the way women seemed to be drinking from the early 1990s to the early 2000s,” Glaser said in response to an email last week about her book. 

“I noticed young women drinking excessively — pretty much everybody did — but I also noticed a big uptick in how older women were drinking, too.” 

Glaser wanted to know why increasing numbers of women — white middle- and upper-class women, in particular — are turning to alcohol to cope with the issues of life. 

And so in just 187 pages she answers her own question, all the while exploring women’s “wacky” history with alcohol. 

The short answer, Glaser said, is women are anxious, depressed — and feel anxious about being anxious and depressed. 

“Drinking brings pretty swift relief to those feelings, at least temporarily,” she said. “Epidemiologists link female college attendance and working in male-dominated fields such as banking and technology to more drinking,The 88-year-old Alvin resident is a life member of metal tin cans wholesale Sailors, the National Association of Destroyer Veterans. but I also think it’s stress.Online shopping for cheap cabinet locks & Straps Safety from a great selection of Baby & more at everyday low prices. They have jobs, kids, aging parents, worries about aging, financial anxieties, a zillion activities they feel their kids have to be involved in. Wine is presented as a respectable release valve.” 

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“They didn’t start getting included on a large scale until the 1990s,” she said. 

Although many of the women she interviewed for the book didn’t qualify as alcohol-dependent, Glaser said what was striking was how increasing numbers of women were being arrested for drunken driving or showing up in hospitals dangerously intoxicated while rates for men were falling or staying flat. 

“The number of middle-age women checking into rehab nearly tripled between 1992 and 2007,We rank the best laptop locks wholesalers with side-by-side comparisons. Read in-depth product reviews and articles.” Glaser said. “What’s more, while more young women binge drink, the older women who drink four drinks or more in a span of two hours do so with greater frequency. Those figures were startling.”