The first global study to investigate how gender equality may be associated with life expectancy has found that both women and men live longer as it improves.
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Older women heal bone fractures slower than men. Now a team has found that a single, localized delivery of estrogen to a fracture can speed up healing in postmenopausal mice. The findings could have implications for the way ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Summer temperatures in Spain have risen by more than 1ºC since 1980 due to climate change. Despite this increase, and contrary to expectations, deaths related to heat have declined rather than increased. This trend suggests ...
Jul 24, 2018
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It turns out there might be a scientific reason behind women needing extra "beauty sleep." Studies show, on average, women require about 11 minutes more sleep per night than men do. Although this difference might seem small, ...
Jul 27, 2024
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Though women perform 77% of health care jobs nationally, gender wage gaps persist, potentially contributing to lower lifetime earnings for millions of women and deterring professional advancement.
Feb 6, 2024
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The gap in life expectancy between American men and women is now the biggest it has been since the mid-1990s—almost six years.
Nov 13, 2023
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Food insecurity is four times higher in Brazilian households headed by single women of color than those headed by married white men, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS Global Public Health. Gender ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Something strange is going on in women's happiness research. Because despite having more freedom and employment opportunities than ever before, women have higher levels of anxiety and more mental health challenges, such as ...
Sep 4, 2023
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When shared parental leave was introduced in 2015 in the UK, the then Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government described it as a "radical" policy, suitable for modern lives and workplaces.
Aug 21, 2023
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Throughout history, sports have been guilty of prioritizing certain groups at the exclusion of others. There has been a pervasive idea that being an athlete requires the demonstration of traditionally masculine traits. Any ...
Dec 9, 2022
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