The Gender Health Gap is very clearly decreasing as people in both the medical community and average western society become more aware and open to the reality that women’s medical needs go further than was thought up until several decades ago. The waves of feminism absolutely had to present themselves in that format because the degradation of women as an entire gender had so many more issues than originally thought needed to be dealt with.

In terms of health, however, it’s interesting to determine who has the upper hand. In general, men have a lower life expectancy. A knee-jerk reaction to related statistics imply that men need more medical attention, more coverage, and women need to stop complaining so much. However a Harvard University study claimed that several of the reasons men “lag” so severally are brought on by themselves. Examples are:

• Work stress
• Risky behavior
• Aggression and violence
• Smoking
• Alcohol and substances abuse
• Diet
• Lack of exercise
• Lack of routine medical care

It’s intriguing to think about human potential in terms of health and life expectancy if, in theory, we actually took care of ourselves.