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Women are less likely to engage in muscle building exercises - but see more benefits in a shorter period of time vs men doing the same exercises!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/women-see-greater-health-benefits-regular-exercise-men-rcna138837

Reposting from /healthcare, but would love this channel’s thoughts!

Is the reason we see less women engaging in strength training due to stigma of “muscles” on women, lack of childhood encouragement, or something else?

Clearly women benefit greatly, but statistically, women are less likely to train strength

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Interesting, I think the stigma of having muscles as a woman is mostly gone in the west at least. I think the main reason men workout more doing weights is because there is still societal pressures on men being strong and having muscles.

IMO 2 reasons:
1. Narrative. "Lifting makes you bulky" and that's not the goal for a lot of women (spoiler: it doesn't w/o a crazy diet adjustment) 
2. Lack of education on our own health. Women are told in their 40s or 50s that they need to build muscle to avoid things like osteoporosis, but it's too little too late.

My opinion, which is in line with previous comments, is that there’s a perception that strength training is to bulk up. In some cases, people will also consider it to prevent/fix injuries from other activities (like running, or spending all day looking at a computer/phone lol).