Emily Anderson- women drink as much as men?

     Recently, there has been a study on the alcoholic consumption gap between males and females. Scientists have shown that more and more women are starting to drink as much as men. In the 1990s, men were twice as likely to intake alcohol than women. Now, men are only 1.1 times more likely to drink alcohol than women. There has been a huge change in the alcohol consumption gap in the past century. This is most likely the effect from the equality of women over time. Studies have shown that women are more likely to drink as much as men in a country where they are treated the same. Since in the United States, women have worked very hard for equal pay and treatment in society, the gap has decreased immensely.
     This current event relates to the Temperance Movement in the Antebellum Age of the 1800s. This reform movement was a opposition of the use of alcohol. The head of the this charge was the women of the time period. Most women helped with shutting down saloons, so the men would't drink. Drinking was considered to be the cause of family violence from the male figure in the house. It is very interesting to see how much the United States' opinion towards alcohol has changed throughout history. The eighteen amendment was created to ban all alcohol in the U.S. but then was later repealed by the twenty-first amendment. Now, women have almost closed the gap between the amount of alcohol consumption of men to women.


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