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Despite the social inequality women experience, they live longer than men. Women experience higher stress, more chronic disease, more depression, more anxiety and are more likely to be victims of violence. Women earn less than men, and in many countries they don’t have the same human rights as men. Despite the social inequality women ...
More than 141 million children will be born this year, and the boys will live 69.8 years on average, while the girls will clock up 74.2 years – a difference of 4.4 years. Life expectancy at age 60 is also greater for women than men, the data shows.
In Russia, the country with the widest gap, men can expect to live to 64.7 years old and women to 76.3, a difference of 11.6 years. The countries with the largest gender gap in life expectancy. At the other end of the scale, in Mali, where lifespans are 58.2 for men and 58.3 for women, the difference is only 0.1 years.
Now, however, it has been shown that the real answer is much simpler: Latinos just age more slowly. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Latinos in the United States live an average of three years longer than Caucasians, with a life expectancy of 82 versus 79. At any age, healthy Latino adults face a 30% lower risk of ...
The gender pensions gap is estimated at 30-40%. Typically, the balances of women in retirement are 30-40% less than men across the globe. Taking Europe as an example, the gender pension gap varies significantly between different countries, ranging from 4% to 49%, but more than half have a gap of 30% or greater. The gender pension gap across ...
4. ADHD. Another neurodevelopmental condition that frequently co-occurs with autism, and is similarly mis- or under-diagnosed in females, is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In the US, less than 1% of women have a diagnosis of ADHD, but the number is growing rapidly, according to research.
Nov 2, 2015. When all work – paid and unpaid – is accounted for, women work longer hours than men. This is according to the UN’s The World’s Women 2015 report, which found women spend an average of 30 minutes a day longer than men on paid and unpaid work in developed countries and 50 minutes longer in developing countries.
This gender health gap is not a new topic. Gender discrepancies within healthcare have made many headlines in recent years. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) found that although women in the European Union live longer than men, they spend more of their lives in poor health. While these findings gained a lot of attention at the time ...
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Closing the gap could add $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040. At Davos, women leaders across three sessions discussed the need to increase funding and research into women’s health. Women may live longer than men, on average, but they spend 25% more of their lives in debilitating health, according to a new report from the World Economic ...