Healthcare:
Health practices are performed differently based on a variety of variables, key among them gender, location, and societal norms. For example, the rurality of a community and men’s health practices are directly related. This connection needs to be more fully understood if an improvement in the health of these rural men is to be achieved. In a similar way, the weight based stigma centered around women deeply affects multiple aspects of women’s lives, from employment, education, romantic relationships, and healthcare. The negative bias against fat women has significant detrimental effects in all of these areas.
Rural communities generally have worse overall health than urban populations, which is typically thought to be related to modifieable risk behaviors in connection …show more content…
In the media, fat women are largely nonexistent, save for when they play a foil to a thin character, or to provide comic relief of some sort, and their weight is typically a defining feature of their character (Fikkan and Rothblum 2011). There are only exceptionally beautiful women in the media, while there is seemingly plenty of space for average looking men. The price that women pay for being overweight is exacted in multiple realms, and is largely disregarded, and is reported as being the “third most prevalent cause of perceived discrimination among women,” topping things like sexuality, race, or religion (Puhl et al. 2008 as cited in Fikkan and Rothblum 2011, p. 588). The relationship between gender and health impacts men and women in very different ways, and has a lot of potential for both positive and negative consequences on the overall health practices of society as a
Health practices are performed differently based on a variety of variables, key among them gender, location, and societal norms. For example, the rurality of a community and men’s health practices are directly related. This connection needs to be more fully understood if an improvement in the health of these rural men is to be achieved. In a similar way, the weight based stigma centered around women deeply affects multiple aspects of women’s lives, from employment, education, romantic relationships, and healthcare. The negative bias against fat women has significant detrimental effects in all of these areas.
Rural communities generally have worse overall health than urban populations, which is typically thought to be related to modifieable risk behaviors in connection …show more content…
In the media, fat women are largely nonexistent, save for when they play a foil to a thin character, or to provide comic relief of some sort, and their weight is typically a defining feature of their character (Fikkan and Rothblum 2011). There are only exceptionally beautiful women in the media, while there is seemingly plenty of space for average looking men. The price that women pay for being overweight is exacted in multiple realms, and is largely disregarded, and is reported as being the “third most prevalent cause of perceived discrimination among women,” topping things like sexuality, race, or religion (Puhl et al. 2008 as cited in Fikkan and Rothblum 2011, p. 588). The relationship between gender and health impacts men and women in very different ways, and has a lot of potential for both positive and negative consequences on the overall health practices of society as a