The world's first study to examine the correlation between gender equality and life expectancy has revealed that both women and men live longer as gender equality improves. However, variations in the results between countries grouped by socioeconomic development and geographic proximity indicate
, said the results suggest that addressing longstanding gender inequality and empowering women might help extend longevity for both women and men.
According to the latest report by the World Economic Forum, global events such as the rising cost of living, thepandemic, the climate emergency, and large-scale conflict and displacement are stalling progress toward gender parity. This may, in turn, jeopardize socioeconomic development and improvement in living and working conditions, curbing the gains in life expectancy that have occurred over the past decades.
Among the three dimensions included in this study , gender equality in education had the strongest association with longer LE for both women and men. “The weaker association between gender equality in the political domain and the gender gap in LE raises concerns about how gender equality is being implemented by political systems worldwide,” she said.
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