Female Longevity Offset by Lethal Gender Gaps
Editorial:
From Women's eNews:
That was the parallax view presented last week at an annual summing up by the National Council for Research on Women, a New York-based network of 100 leading U.S. research policy and advocacy centers, which held a panel here at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Since 1980, women have lived longer than men in all parts of the world. In low-income countries, women now live 20 years longer, on average, than they did in 1980. In addition, over half a billion women have joined the world labor force.
At the same time, however, girls and women are often still treated as more expendable.
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Source:
Women's eNews
URL:
http://womensenews.org/story/equalitywomen%E2%80%99s-rights/120313/female-longevity-offset-lethal-gender-gaps
Date:
March 14, 2012
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