Imagine what feminists would be saying if it was the other way around.
Sex differences in life expectancy, 1960-2017, for a range of countries https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/bahdmx/life_expectancy_difference_between_men_and_women/ …pic.twitter.com/JqLEGfHU5Y
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If someone just tipped them off, believe me, they would find a way to interpret this as oppression too.
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The closing gap means we're oppressing them for increasingly larger proportions of their lives...
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Is this some of that sexism I've been hearing about?
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Hard-drinking men in Russia + Estonia? Maybe Finland as well?
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The gap is persistent all over the world. There must be a biological explanation. I can’t believe that it's just the habits, like hard drinking. Testosterone maybe?
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It's a pattern seen throughout the animal Kingdom (which is why more males are born than females) males generally compete for female attention, putting them in harm's way.
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Where's South Africa on that bugger?
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The guy taking the stats died
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Way underrated
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So, women can work more of their life if they want?
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Yeah, what an awful fate women are uniquely condemned to, having to extract by labor from the environment the things they need to survive. Who could have invented such a dastardly system?
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A: Nature.
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it's good to see the gap seems to be closing
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Lol that depends on the reason
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True - but i don't think there has been a drop in woman's life expectency that's causing the closing of the gap:https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/feb/13/when-will-men-live-as-long-as-women-by-2032-say-experts …
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I dont think there is either, just a chance at a little levity. Should have been a bit more clear on this
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Women are smoking more for longer relative to men, than previously. Has explained some of the closing gap.
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Also increasing rates of alcohol consumption for collage/university educated women. I have read about how public health people are trying to avert the possibility that with increasing income/education woman will adopt many of the bad habits men of that socioeconomic status have
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But men are generally improving their health with smoking and alcohol changes having an effect where their life expectancy is rising faster than women's (which is also rising). But i am nothing like an expert in this complex area of public health.
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