According to suicide.org, in the U.S. in 2005, 25,566 men committed suicide and 2,086 women. A whopping difference. It might be because women can talk about anything with their girlfriends and men, as you asked, hold emotions (and discussing them with their friends) inside.

Good question. Worldwide, I see the rate is 4:1 male to female. I suspect your guess is part of the reason. I think that regardless of changes in our thoughts about working women, men still feel the lion's share of the burden to be the family provider. When they fall short in that, it can be devastating. People also take their own lives when they discover they have a terminal illness. They may figure a quick and inexpensive demise beats a slow, expensive one in a hospital or hospice. Amazingly, the highest suicide rate in the USA is among white men 85 and older! They are probably often in that medical necessity category.

I think it has more to do with our roles in society. With modern norms for women being broken and women going into the workplace and such not a lot has changed for men..true some are stay at home dads but the vast majority of men are still considered to be the bread winners. Women regardless of their life goal are not expected to perform on such levels as men are by society. No one can argue raising a kid is the hardest job in the world but if a mother fails she is not judged as harshly as a man who loses his job, messes up badly at work or chooses a bad career path. Men are still burdened with the idea that you go to school, you go to college, you get out, you get a good job, make a lot of money, get the car, the house, the wife and then start saving for retirement after having 1.2 kids you put through college. That's our role in society as society perceives it, whereas a woman can become a business eprson, be a housewife, it doesn't matter if she has a good job or a job at all, she is not expected to succeed in any on style or generalized way as men are. There is no set mold for a woman to follow or a certain goal for her to attain to be considered a successful woman. Especially in places like japan where suicide rates for males are the highest, failure to get a good job or afford a wife from a good family are critical to ones happiness and success in life..failure to attain these goals means life is not worht living or the result is living in shame and failure...which is more than some men can take. Women on the other hand are pitied by society when they make a bad marriage mistake or fail in a career, men are chastised for it. again I am not saying women don't have standards they have to live up to as far as how society perceives them but they have much more freedom as to what is expected from them and what "sucess" is for a woman.

Sadly yes. It should be reversible. Women are more emotionally unstable, they should commit suicide more often.

It's a conspiracy! The women are causing all the men to commit suicide! :-P

yeah i think alot of males hold alot inside as they are expected to be the sronger sex and are sometimes afraid to admit they are struggling in life as they think people might see this as a sign of weakness and will see them as less of a man ,women are more open and can go and have a cry on another womens shoulders and are not afraid to admit to one another when they are feeing bad so it dosent surprise me that males are more prone to committing suicide altough i was not aware this was the case but am not surprised either.