New research from Harvard Chan School and UC San Francisco shows that the life expectancy of American women is now 5.8 years longer than that of American men—a trend researchers say is driven by th…
This is not a problem everywhere, in west europe this gap is narrowing. For example the gap reduced from 6.8 years to 4.4 in the last 30 years in Switzerland.
The fact that you express a gap of 4.4 years as “not a problem” is exactly my point.
edit: Maybe you’re referring to the fact that the gap is not widening but shrinking in Switzerland, so I would agree that the gap widening is not a problem.
However, the gap existing at all (barring genetic considerations) is still a huge problem nobody is talking about.
This is not a problem everywhere, in west europe this gap is narrowing. For example the gap reduced from 6.8 years to 4.4 in the last 30 years in Switzerland.
https://www.srf.ch/wissen/gesundheit/gleiche-lebenserwartung-fuer-alle
First - how is that even relevant to what he said. Secondly - The gap is a problem everywhere, even if it is narrower than in the US.
The fact that you express a gap of 4.4 years as “not a problem” is exactly my point.
edit: Maybe you’re referring to the fact that the gap is not widening but shrinking in Switzerland, so I would agree that the gap widening is not a problem.
However, the gap existing at all (barring genetic considerations) is still a huge problem nobody is talking about.
Barring genetic considerations isn’t a minor thing. Men have higher rates of cardiovascular disease inherently, just for one factor.
I agree, which is why I explicitly factored it out.