ANOTHER HARMAN MYTH IS DESTROYED: THIS TIME ON RECESSION DEPRESSION

Yesterday's post highlighted that the UK's Minister for Women, Harriet Harman MP, said that "We [women] have to worry more than men and we are definitely worrying more about the recession than men are."

However, mental health charity MIND published a report (link) stating that "Men are struggling to cope with the emotional impact of the recession. Almost 40% of men admit to feeling low at the moment with job security, work and money playing on their minds."

Their report Men and mental health: Get it off your chest showed:-

• 37% of men are feeling worried or low

• Middle aged men are 7 times more likely than women to have suicidal thoughts

• Only 23% of men would see their GP if they felt low over a fortnight

• Men were only half as likely to talk to friends about problems as women

This, just like her other myth, subsequently destroyed by the Office of National Statistics' own figures (link) that the recession harmed female employment more than it did men, destroys her myth that women are worrying about the recession more than man.

With three times as many men committing suicide per year than women (link), the MIND figures come as no surprise but it shows how desperate Harman is in trying to keep her malevolent agenda going.

She bases nothing on facts, just myths to try and make out on each and every subject that women are more hard done by than men.

She has been proved yet again to peddling untruths.

Story covered also by the BBC and Daily Mail.

Hat-tip: John Kimble

 

 

Comments

[Nigel]

In the 1980s there was a lot of evidence,sadly because there was a lot of unemployment. Of course a big factor was the men's concerns for their families as they were the main person supporting the family. Despite the changes increasing women's employment since then it is still the fact that men are their family's main source of income. Not being able to provide what your loved ones need will be again a burden for many men. It is really odd that the current stuff seems not to believe that people,men and women, see their family life as a joint effort that they both can worry about or rejoice in.