Is it really? Male suicide increased 20% yoy, which is significant but… female suicide increased 80%. That is much more worrying if it's a trend.
Even within a given category of method of suicide, men have a greater success rate. Places where the most efficacious method of killing yourself (guns) are banned still maintain a ~3:1 male:female suicide death ratio.
A naive read on suicide attempt:success rates suggest that men are literally 10x as effective of women in achieving their aims. That's the kind of ratio that suggests that there's something big not being captured in the statistics, and in that case it's important to focus on the more objective measure (a death by suicide) than something relatively subjective (a suicide attempt)
Also, wasn't there a study that said news of suicide actually contributed to more suicides? That spamming national suicide hotlines across social media actually increased suicides. That most people, including borderline suicidal people, don't think about suicide until it is broadcast all over news/social media?
https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.sdg.3-4-data?lang=en
There are a few exceptions. Zimbabwe, Somalia, Kenya, Liberia, etc.
All suicide prevention focuses on middle aged men because that's the highest risk group, but they don't ignore other groups.
For example, "Femicide" is a hot topic right now in Mexico. "10 women are murdered every day", you'll frequently see mentioned in infographics shared on Mexican Facebook over the past year. There are marches and protests against femicide.
Not to say that public attention should never focus on the ordeals of any specific group that doesn't hold the #1 prize in victimhood.
But the thing is that you will read all these headlines and start to wonder what Mexico has against its women, and that life here must be especially tough for women when it comes to staying alive. When Mexico comes up in conversation, you might start mentioning things like "oof, really hard to be woman there right now!"
Eventually, you might not realize that men are the victims of 90% of all homicides in Mexico.
It's a bit like the UN's tweet in "support" of International Men's Day. Read it. It's bitterly amusing.
Given the new definition of femicide, shouldn't the figure be that 100% of homicide victims are men?
Your comment adds nothing and misconstrues arguments for equal outcomes.
This probably reflects a general societal bias where "missing woman" is seen as inherently more tragic than "missing man".
So only agendas you support are allowed here? Who made you dictator?
> Your comment adds nothing and misconstrues arguments for equal outcomes.
The same goes for your comment. Instead of attacking someone why not add something constructive?
Seems strange to single out one gender here. I'm not even sure that you can conclude that this is impacting women harder than it is men, as the article does, given that the number is so much higher for men in the first place.