In een wetenschappelijke studie uit november 2020, “Drinking to cope with the pandemic: The unique associations of COVID-19-related perceived threat and psychological distress to drinking behaviors in American men and women”, is naar voren gekomen dat gedurende 2020 het alcoholgebruik onder vrouwen dusdanig is gestegen, dat het op gelijke voet is gekomen met het gebruik door mannen. “I left that study with more questions than answers,” says Lindsey Rodriguez, the paper’s lead author and a psychologist at the University of South Florida. “Is it because of home-schooling? Uncertainty about the future? High pressure in more domains of life? Women were disproportionately affected by all things Covid-19. This is another way of showing the effects of that.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460320306626