More women than men reported exposure to fat talk in their circle of friends and acquaintances and greater pressure to engage in it (Salk & Engeln-Maddox).
For earlier in life, 9.6% of the women and 3.5% of the men reported exposure to such acts.
We did, however, also find that men reported exposure to isolating control which points to the existence of female perpetrators [ 5, 15].
Physical and/or sexual violence since age 15 was reported by 57.1% women and 40.2% men (p=0.01); 29.9% women and 12.3% men reported exposure to any violence in the past year.
Throughout our analyses, more women than men reported exposure to SC during the past year and earlier in life and this is consistent with earlier research [ 4, 9, 10, 13].
Such a hypothesis may also explain why men's reported exposure to physical assault for the period earlier in life was lower than expected (it was of the same size as for the past year).
For the time period earlier in life, however, more women (15.9%) than men (11.0%) reported exposure to such acts.
Some recent research showed that more men than women reported exposure to physical assault, while more women reported exposure to sexual coercion in the past year [ 37].
Because pesticides are applied mostly by men, the present analyses were restricted to men who were farmers and reported exposure to pesticides.
This sample was collected from a man of 58 years, with daily reported exposure to cattle, who lived in Tsiroanomandidy and had no travel history outside Madagascar.
