Nearly 30 per cent more women in Canada are engaging in risky drinking than were a decade ago, according to the government agency Statistics Canada. Risky drinking is defined at having five or more drinks at one sitting, once or more a month.
Women are still not drinking as much as men but experts worry that they are more sensitive to alcohol overall, so it takes less to cause problems. Among the problems: high alcohol consumption increases the risk for breast cancer, engaging in unsafe sex and bearing a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Critics blame makers of alcohol products, in part, for marketing special drinks to boost consumption among women.
The long search for equality between men and women in Canada does not always yield positive results.
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