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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are men the weaker sex? [View all]
Scientists confirm what women always knew: men really are the weaker sex
In times of famine, epidemic and hardship over the past 250 years, women have consistently outlived men, find researchers
Women are more likely than men to survive in times of famine and epidemics, research has found.
While it has long been known that women have a higher life expectancy than men in general, analysis of historical records stretching back 250 years shows that women have, for example, outlived men on slave plantations in Trinidad, during famines in Sweden and through various measles outbreaks in Iceland.
Even when mortality was very high for both sexes, women still outlived men, on average, by six months to four years, according to the report (pdf) by Duke University in North Carolina.
The datasets included seven groups of people for whom life expectancy was 20 years or under for one or both sexes. Among them were working and former slaves in Trinidad and the US in the early 1800s; people experiencing famine in Sweden, Ireland and the Ukraine in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; and Icelanders affected by the 1846 and 1882 measles epidemics.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jan/15/scientists-confirm-what-women-always-knew-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex
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The science has been there all while I was raising kids and reading the books.
Bananaluver
Jan 2020
#3
Well, I have heard plenty of women say "You should try childbirth some time."
TreasonousBastard
Jan 2020
#5
I love my husband, but if he gets a cold he is down for the count and needs constant care.
redstatebluegirl
Jan 2020
#27
Let me be really sexist. When I want a complete escape from our political doo-doo, I'll switch on
Karadeniz
Jan 2020
#13
And what of constitutional strength (rather than the ill-defined 'muscular strength')?
LanternWaste
Jan 2020
#67
You are right, it is always attributed to Betty but it turns out it was actually someone else.
FM123
Jan 2020
#59
Evolution is science, and science is not predicated on "if they had to, they'd do it..."
LanternWaste
Jan 2020
#68
Can you provide the relevant and objective numbers to support this premise?
LanternWaste
Jan 2020
#70