@article{ref1,
title="New findings on gender: the effects of employment status on suicide",
journal="International journal of women's health",
year="2019",
author="Kposowa, Augustine J. and Aly Ezzat, Dina and Breault, Kevin",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="569-575",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of gender and employment on suicide with the use of expanded unemployment statuses as covariates. <br><br>METHODS: Data were obtained from release 5 of the National Longitudinal Mortality Study, a prospective study of deaths in the United States. Proportional hazards regression models were fitted to the data based on follow-up from 1990 to 2011. <br><br>RESULTS: Unemployment was significantly associated with suicide (ARR=1.628, 95% CI=1.356, 1.954), and men had suicide deaths that were five times greater than women (ARR=5.104, 95% CI=4.565, 5.707), however when the sample was stratified by sex, the impact of unemployment on suicide was much higher among women (ARR=2.988, 95% CI=2.045, 4.366) than among men (ARR=1.393, 95% CI=1.131, 1.717). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Contrary to many findings and gender assumptions, unemployed women in the U.S. have higher deaths from suicide than unemployed men. <br><br>DISCUSSION focused on explanations for gender disparities in unemployment.<br><br>© 2019 Kposowa et al.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1179-1411",
doi="10.2147/IJWH.S216504",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S216504"
}