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In the United States, the average life span of women is 7 years longer than that of men. Women live longer than men in all developed countries. Women also tend to have a lower mortality rate at every age. Even in the womb, male fetuses have a higher mortality rate than female fetuses.
Men have external testes, which are susceptible to severe injury, rupture or torsion.
Women have more sensitive hearing than men. Women also have a more sensitive sense of smell than men, both in the differentiation of odors, and in the detection of slight or faint odors.
Women generally have faster blood flow to their brains and lose less brain tissue as they age than men do.
Women produce more antibodies at a faster rate than men. Hence they develop fewer infectious diseases and succumb for shorter periods. Women are also less likely to suffer from cancer than men.
Certain conditions are X-linked recessive, in that the gene is carried on the X chromosome. Genetic females (XX) will have the disease only if both their X chromosomes are defective with a similar deficiency, whereas genetic males (XY) will have the disease if their only X chromosome is defective. For this reason, such conditions are far more common in males than in females. Examples of X-linked recessive conditions are color blindness, hemophilia, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Statistically more men than women work in more dangerous occupations including: construction, transportation and utilities, mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing, firefighting, policing and patrol officers. There is also harder physical entrance criteria for men in these occupations.
The majority of occupational deaths occur among men. In one U.S. study, 93% of deaths on the job involved men, with a death rate approximately 11 times higher than women.
Insurance companies often charge different rates for men and women: Automobile insurance companies charge more for teenage boys than their female counterparts. Life and disability insurance is also higher for males than for females.
52.9% of American women are in the labor force versus 73.3% of men. 70.7% of women with children under 18 are in the workforce (up from 47% in 1975), compared with 94% of men with children under 18. Approximately 26% of employed women only work part time, compared with about 11% of employed men. Women in non-agricultural industries only work 35.9 hours per week versus 41.6 hours for men.
Women are more likely to be hired to child-related occupations than men. In general, men are more likely to be accused of pedophilia. Single men are also much less likely to be allowed to adopt children or gain custody of children than single women.
In many countries a disproportionate amount of maternity leave is granted than paternity leave.
Many countries, including the US, have male-only conscripted military service.
There is often a bias in health concerns in favor of women. For example, there is more advertisements and awareness for breast cancer than prostate cancer, though both cancers kill approximately the same number of people each year.
It is generally acceptable for a woman to wear traditionally male clothing, while the converse is often seen as unusual. Also, in most societies, homosexual and bisexual women are more widely accepted than their male counterparts.
In most societies, men are generally expected to play the more active role in the early stages of courtship, for example in asking the woman for a date. Society places a greater expectation on males to conform to "masculine" social norms that on women to conform to "feminine" social norms. It's usually seen as socially acceptable for a female to try out or follow more masculine social norms, whereas if a male does the same for feminine social norms they often attract unwanted attention and are victims of ridicule and insult.
Much more pressure is put on men than women to preform well sexually by the media.
In western countries, males are much more likely to die by suicide than females (usually by a factor of 3–4:1); 69 out of 74 non-western countries found an excess male mortality from suicide. American males between the ages of 20 and 24 have a suicide rate that is seven times higher than that of women.
With the exception of rape, men are far more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime.
Violence against men is taken less seriously than violence against women. Depiction of violence against men are often used as humorous in the media and elsewhere where the reverse would be seen as unacceptable.
There is also much less support or sympathy for male victims in domestic violence than for female victims. Statutory rape laws are enforced more vehemently in instances where the victim is female and/or the perpetrator is male. Many female-on-male rape cases are dismissed without investigation. The media also portrays female-on-male rape as humorous in the media and elsewhere where the reverse would be seen as unacceptable.
Women often have lower incarceration rates and shorter sentences than men for the same crimes.
Numerous tenets of the divorce favor women over men, including the previously mentioned child custody, but also alimony and child support payments and division of property from the husband. In their study titled "Child Custody Policies and Divorce Rates in the US," Kuhn and Guidubaldi find it reasonable to conclude that women anticipate advantages to being single, rather than remaining married. When women anticipate a clear gender bias in the courts regarding custody, they expect to be the primary residential parent for the children and recipient of the resulting financial child support, maintaining the marital residence, receiving half of all marital property, and gaining total freedom to establish new social relationships. Over two-thirds of all divorces are initiated by women. Among college-educated couples, the percentages of divorces initiated by women is approximately 90%.
Overall, women claim to be far happier than men with their lives, and reported more often that they had made personal progress in the last five years.