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Women have lived longer than men throughout most of history and in basically every society, so your theory doesn't hold. Childbirth was dangerous but men's work
by username90 5y ago
Women have lived longer than men throughout most of history and in basically every society, so your theory doesn't hold. Childbirth was dangerous but men's work was even more dangerous.
- coronasaurus 5y agoCitation needed. A quick Google search on life expectancy during the middle ages tells me that men lived longer than women.
- daenz 5y agoWhere do you see that? Every result from my quick searching is listing women as longer than men. Example: https://www.purplemotes.net/2015/08/23/medieval-life-expectancy-gender-difference https://www.purplemotes.net/2015/08/23/medieval-life-expecta...
- coronasaurus 5y agohttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2847291?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2847291?seq=1
- letonmorri 5y agoThe ratio of older women to men: historical perspectives and cross-national comparisons https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10902048/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10902048/ This paper seems to disagree heavily with you.
- coronasaurus 5y agoJust going by the abstract that you linked, that study seems to only relate to the past 100 years. And extrapolating this to the middle ages and earlier: In general, countries with a lower overall life expectancy had a lower number of women per 100 men aged 75+, while countries with higher overall life expectancy had a higher female to male ratio in this age group. A hundred years ago there were nearly equal numbers of women and men aged 75+ in many countries. It doesn't seem to disagree with me at all.
- daenz 5y ago"making it to adulthood" is different than "living longer"
- istinetz 5y agoThere are A LOT of claims itt, and not nearly enough sources for any of it. It feels like you're right, but what "feels right" turns out to be wrong pretty often.