A real gender problem...

Enough with silly 'gender equity' issues. Here's a major issue that needs to be addressed. There are nearly 2 million more black women than black men, and there is alway nearly a million black men in prison.

In the March/April issue of Health Affairs, Dr. David Satcher, surgeon general under President Clinton and now the interim president of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, exposes the core of the problem: Between 1960 and 2000, the disparity between mortality rates for black and white women narrowed while the disparity between the rates for black and white men grew wider.

Exponentially higher homicide and AIDS rates play their part, especially among younger black men. Even more deadly through middle age and beyond are higher rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer.

"The degree of loss and death that people in those communities are experiencing at a young age is just unfathomable," says Arline Geronimus of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

You'll never hear feminists talking about this issue.