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Health and safety
Social constructs of gender (that is, cultural ideals of socially acceptable masculinity and femininity) often have a negative effect on health and safety. In places around the world it is not safe for some to go to school for reasons such as lack basic resources such as bathrooms and hygiene products( Organization cites the example of women not being allowed to travel alon e outside the home (to go to the hospital), There are at least 18 countries around the world where some still need permission from their husbands. As well as women being prevented by cultural norms to ask their husbands to use a condom, in cultures which simultaneously encourage male promiscuity, as social norms that harm women's health.This be the cause of STD spread as well as unhealthy feminine health. Teenage boys suffering accidents due to social expectations of impressing their peers through risk taking, and men dying at much higher rate from lung cancer due to smoking, in cultures which link smoking to masculinity, are cited by the WHO as examples of gender norms negatively affecting men's health. The World Health Organization has also stated that there is a strong connection between gender socialization and transmission and lack of adequate management of HIV/AIDS.