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…
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.
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.