Random Things of A Study That Suggests Women Are More Likely To Survive Apocalyptic Hell (11 items)

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  (#3) Women Live An Average Of 3.7 Years Longer During Widespread Famine

  If you're facing intense famine (perhaps after our crops are destroyed by radioactive soil), you're a little bit luckier if you're a woman. Researchers found the women outlive men when food is scarce.

  The study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined the way the Irish Potato Famine affected the life expectancy of men and women. The famine began in 1846 when a fungus-like blight infected Ireland's largest crop. The outbreak was widespread until 1851 and claimed about a million lives during its five years of destruction. On average, women lived 3.7 years longer than men in these dire circumstances.

  It wasn't only women who fared better; girls did, too. During the 1933 Ukrainian famine, newborn girls lived to be an average of 10.85 years old, while newborn boys only made it to an average of 7.3 years.
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  (#7) Women's Survival Might Be Chromosomal

  When it comes down to it, women have a safeguard that men don't. One theory alleges that women regularly outlive men because their double X chromosomes safeguard them against diseases as their cells begin to malfunction with age.

  It's really simple when you look at it. Women have two X chromosomes, but men have an X and a Y chromosome. This means that women keep two copies of every single gene they have, while men keep just one. If a gene is faulty or malfunctions with age, women have another to fall back on. Men don't, so they're at a greater risk for diseases like cancer. In the UK, it's estimated that men are 40% more likely to die from cancer and 16% more likely to contract the disease
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  (#11) The Biggest Health Threat To Women Is Men

  Women might be able to battle the most extreme circumstances – from widespread disease to famine and natural disasters – but one of their biggest threats remains the men that they love. According to Dr. Kirtly Parket Jones, a professor at University of Utah Health Care, one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime. Out of every woman murdered in the United States, one in three is killed by an intimate partner.

  A 2016 study launched by Australia's National Research Organization for Women's Safety found that intimate partner violence was the single biggest risk factor for women's health. It ranked above alcohol use, smoking and obesity for women ages 18 to 44.
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  (#4) Girls Outlive Boys In Infancy, Meaning Their Survival Skills Are Biological

  A 2018 female survival advantage study from Germany and Denmark showed that women survived longer in times of famine and disease. It also showed at the root of the sex's ramped-up life expectancy was the resilience of newborn baby girls. Across the board, infant mortality was higher for boys than it was for girls. This was in spite of the fact that parental attitudes historically preferred male offspring (it wasn't the firstborn daughter that was threatened by the plagues of Egypt; it was the firstborn son). In some cases, families were more willing to seek out treatment and food for their sons, who were responsible for continuing the family name.

  "It is even more remarkable that, despite a potential discrimination against them, baby girls survived more [than baby boys]," said Virginia Zarulli, the study's lead author and assistant professor at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark.

  On top of that, pregnant women are more likely to give birth to girls when a crisis strikes. A study revealed a dip in the ratio of male-to-female births during a famine in the country of Shige Song. Experts aren't exactly sure why there'd be more baby girls, but some believe that baby boys are an inherent genetic gamble. Food is scarce; girls are resilient; and as a result, your body makes sure to give you a daughter if times are tough.
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  (#5) Today, Women Regularly Outlive Men By More Than A Decade

  Though history serves as our witness, women are still more resilient than men in today's society. Though life expectancy is ever-increasing worldwide (with a slight two year dip in US life expectancy), women regularly outlive men by over a decade. The widest gap is found in Russia, where the average man lives to be 64.7 years old and the average woman lives to be 76.3. That's over an 11 year difference. In places like Japan, which has the longest life expectancy for both sexes, the average man lives to be 80, while the average woman lives to be 86. Across the board, women outlive men.
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  (#10) Male Drug Addiction Caused A Dip In America's Life Expectancy

  In December of 2017, the CDC released an eye-opening report about shrinking American life expectancy, but it wasn't women who were tipping the scales in the wrong direction. While women's life expectancy remained at 81.1 years, men's life expectancy slipped backwards to 76.1 years for the second year in a row. This is the first time life expectancy dipped consecutively since the 1960s, and it falls largely on the shoulders of millennial men.

  Between 2015 and 2016, the death rate of people ages 24 to 34 increased by a whopping 10%. This was largely attributed to the rise in fentanyl overdoses, which pushed the category of unintentional injuries to third place in America's leading causes of death (it clocked in right behind heart disease and cancer). Over 63,600 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016,  and the rate was highest among men.

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