Men, he said, are far less likely to engage in parasuicidal behavior because they have difficulty asking for help. When men kill themselves, they usually use a gun. That's a little more likely to result in death than swallowing twenty aspirin. She has fielded hundreds, maybe more than a thousand hotline calls from people with suicide on their minds. They don't mind asking for help.
Men feel that in order to get help they have to be much more definite.
For them, asking for help is a weakness. Men are calling about financial problems, supporting their families, career choices. Women are more concerned with relationship issues, even in this day and age. His reasoning basically was that as women became more financially independent, they would become less financially dependent upon men. Men would therefore be less burdened by the need to make money.