The Impact Of Gender Roles And Sexism On Men And Women

In this weeks reading on the impact of gender roles and sexism on men and women’s health struggles and health outcomes, I was surprised to learn that the leading cause of death for women was cardiovascular disease, the same as it is for men. Although I knew women suffered from heart disease, I thought cancer was the leading cause of death among women (Helgeson, 2016, p. 345). I found it interesting that women’s prognosis for cardiovascular disease is more serious when compared to that of men. The reason for this outcome is partly because; women are older when they are diagnosed (Helgeson, 2016, p. 355). What concerned me the most are the existing health disparities between men and women. Doctors treat women far less aggressively than men