TY - JOUR
AU - Sanborn, Charlotte J.
AB -  Suicide is the eight‐ranking cause of death in the United States. In 1986, there were 30,904 total suicides, 24,226 male suicides, and 6,678 female suicides. There are 3.6 male completions for each female completion. In the 15‐ to 19‐year‐old age group, over 1,500 males and 300 females committed suicide; in the 20‐ to 24‐year age range, 2,700 males and 500 females committed suicide; in the 25‐ to 29‐year range, 2,800 males and 600 females committed suicide; and in the 30‐ to 34‐year age group, 2,600 males and 650 females committed suicide. So we know that men kill themselves far more often than women ( National Center for Health Statistics, 1988 ). What we do not know is why. When Edward Hoagland (1986) , essayist and novelist, asked a female friend why three times as many men kill themselves as members of her own sex, she replied angrily, “I'm not going to go into the self‐indulgence of men.” Today, I am going to explore the hypothesis that different socialization and the concomitant differential expectations of males and females are responsible for the increased likelihood of suicide among males. Do we indeed socialize our children differently according to gender? Of 
TI - Gender Socialization and Suicide: American Association of Suicidology Presidential Address, 1989
JF - Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
DO - 10.1111/j.1943-278X.1990.tb00097.x
DA - 1990-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/gender-socialization-and-suicide-american-association-of-suicidology-tEDB3XN47E
VL - 20
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -