"Paying to stay safe': why women don't walk as much as men"

Women take fewer steps?

I remember a programme on TV in the 80’s and there was a point being made about house-wives (the term already had my mother snarling like a feral badger with rabies) not sporting enough.

And then some or other professor explained that the average home-worker (my mother spat out: “Unpaid &@€&ing slavery!&rdquo😉 walks up and down the stairs 40+ times a day. Often with loads (babies, whisky bottles... this latter may just have been situational... washing baskets, etc.).

And that the problem wasn’t movement, but was dietry.

So, I’m rather interested in why women have stopped walking up and down the bloody stairs.

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@shavixmir said
Women take fewer steps?

I remember a programme on TV in the 80’s and there was a point being made about house-wives (the term already had my mother snarling like a feral badger with rabies) not sporting enough.

And then some or other professor explained that the average home-worker (my mother spat out: “Unpaid &@€&ing slavery!&rdquo😉 walks up and down the stairs 40+ times ...[text shortened]... ietry.

So, I’m rather interested in why women have stopped walking up and down the bloody stairs.

@mchill said
This depends entirely on when one lives. In my neighborhood women walk far more than men. Most are housewives that walk several miles a day to stay in shape with their friends while their husbands are at work.

I am curious what the solution is supposed to be.

Or is this a problem without a solution?

I often wonder this because, as a 34 year old man, I was exposed to many, many talks about consent & respect. So, I do not know what you can really do at this point besides increase the police presence or, dare I say?, revert to a culture where women are chaperoned by men or in groups with one another.

@philokalia said
I am curious what the solution is supposed to be.

Or is this a problem without a solution?

I often wonder this because, as a 34 year old man, I was exposed to many, many talks about consent & respect. So, I do not know what you can really do at this point besides increase the police presence or, dare I say?, revert to a culture where women are chaperoned by men or in groups with one another.

Feel unsafe.
Feel safer.

Meanwhile, the actual statistics say that men are more likely to come to harm on the street, but women keep insisting that they feel unsafe.

Perhaps the solution doesn't always lie in blaming men and demanding that we change your feelings?

@shallow-blue said
Meanwhile, the actual statistics say that men are more likely to come to harm on the street

@suzianne said
How about promoting a culture that respects women as co-equal members of society? One that doesn't treat them as second-class citizens? Or prey? Or property? Or is that too much to ask?