Comment by The-Magic-Sword on 15/02/2025 at 20:17 UTC

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View submission: Men, Women and Social Connections - Roughly equal shares of U.S. men and women say they’re often lonely; women are more likely to reach out to a wider network for emotional support

The Surgeon General at the time the report on the epidemic came out strongly suggested that rates of loneliness among women were increasing at roughly half the rate it was for men, which is to say it was becoming a problem for both genders.

The proposed mechanism for why it was slower is generally that women are historically more firmly integrated in family and friend units, meaning more male friend groups drift apart over the years, and daughters remained more closely tied with the family than sons.

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