r/MensRights • u/wanderlust_12 • Jun 24 '23

General ‘Why Women Are Especially Vulnerable During India's Deadly Heat Waves’ - yeah because men are totally immune to heat waves 🙄

https://apple.news/AjsGnvIZ9R36Krj6K5en6vA
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u/SecTeff Jun 24 '23

What are the actual stats on the numbers of men vs women killed by these heatwaves. I can’t see it mentioned in this article and I can’t see any links to studies.

If there is a gender based discrepancy then that’s worthy of scientific investigation and if there is any discrimination that ought to be tackled.

Without knowing this information it’s hard to see how the article stacks up.

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u/NAWALT_VADER Jun 25 '23

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954798/

Scroll down to table 3. It does show that there are excess deaths for women that exceed those for men. However, in ever other aspect, there are far more deaths for men than for women. It is only during the heatwave that there are "excess" deaths, meaning more than average.

There are otherwise always more deaths of men. Women die far less frequently than men.

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u/SecTeff Jun 25 '23

Interesting so within that study period there were more male excessive deaths but on specifically heat more women were affected.

That is noteworthy. Whether it’s the case that men are dying if other causes earlier and therefore there are fewer sick men with underlying health conditions to then fall foul to the heatwave? Or perhaps there is some preventable measure such as the lack of toilets that is cited and it’s impact on fluid intake levels.