Women and Alcohol - An interesting article written by Woman

Women and alcohol in Western society has been on a massive journey of change in the last 70 years. In the 1940s and 1950s it was still very rare to find women in public houses and drinking was really something that men did.
In the 1960s during the liberation of women many of them started to frequent public houses and indeed, it became much more normal to see woman drinking. The rise in sales of wine started and has continued to this day, mainly due to woman and their preference for drinks other than ale and beer (partly due to reports of it being less calorific, partly due to taste).
A major change happened in the 90s, this is probably due to two reasons. Firstly, alcohol manufacturers started to produce drinks with women in mind and advertisers focussed on women as they had done with cigarettes in the 50s and 60s, perpetuating the myth that alcohol could make women sexier, more in control of their decisions and just as able to drink as men. Secondly, at this time we also saw the rise in the ‘ladette’ culture encouraging woman to behave like dravot.blogspot.com their male counterparts.  Something which I have never understood, we continuously try to behave like men in all of their worse aspects rather than better than them.
It is now considered ‘normal’ for a woman to go out and get so drunk that she is unable to make decisions about her health and welfare, something that would have been considered socially unacceptable 70 years ago. Woman who did drink at this time were considered low women with loose morals.
It is a scientific fact that women process alcohol differently that men due to the different levels of body fat that women have in comparison to men. Further studies appear to indicate that women who drink heavily are more vulnerable to alcohol-related diseases such as alcoholic liver cirrhosis and brain damage than males, although more males still suffer more chronic health problems due to excessive alcohol consumption. Serious illness appears to happen with women at a lower alcohol level than with men, with the exception of one risk. Very moderate drinking appears to reduce the risk of heart disease, strokes and blood pressure problems in woman whereas raises it in men.