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More women compulsively gambling online

Mben

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A story in The Observer over the weekend says that a growing number of women are turning to a pastime previously dominated by men: compulsive gambling. And more and more women compulsively gambling online.American television network A&E aired a report last year that said 46 percent of compulsive gamblers were women.<a href="http://www.emaxhealth.com/1275/49/35139/compulsive-online-gambling-affects-growing-number-women.html" >From EMaxHealth.com:</a>Quote: <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6">According to the <a href="http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/gf-useful_links/problem_gambling.aspx" >Gambling Commission </a>of the UK, female online gamblers are typically 25 to 34 years of age. The Internet boasts an estimated 2,000 gambling websites, and many take advantage of the fact that women feel safer gambling online than they do in a casino or other facility. A website called Cashcade, for example, which runs getmintedbingo.com, reports that 80 percent of its audience is female.The Gambling Commission of the UK estimates that up to 378,000 people have a gambling problem in Britain, while Gamblers Anonymous believes the number is closer to 600,000. Results of a January 2009 survey conducted by the Gambling Commission found that 9.7 percent of adults questioned said they had participated in online gambling in 2008, compared with 7.2 percent in 2006. The people most likely to participate were males between 18 and 44 years of age, and most gamblers used a personal computer rather than a cell phone or interactive TV. When the Commission conducted an update to their survey through June 2009, it found that the number of people who said they had participated in online gambling had risen to 10.2 percent.
 
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ishin

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Interesting."
I recently read another study/ survey (which I cant seem to find it now) that basically says the same thing...that more women, compared to men, gamble online....and that women make more riskier bets, whatever that means!
 

cat034

KITTY CAT 034
i think its because most women sit  around the house or work from home  and there bored. I cant speak for every1 but i stumbled onto internet gambling out of boredom lmao
 
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