2023-11-09 09:00:15
DECRYPTION – Heart diseases, cancers, gynecological disorders and pain in women are now well taken care of. But we have come a long way!
You might think women are privileged. Don’t they outclass men in terms of life expectancy by showing six years more than men? But longevity does not necessarily mean good health. And, when we look at life expectancy without disability, the gap between the sexes narrows considerably: 64.4 years for men and 65.9 for women. A relative underperformance which cannot be explained by a particular biological constitution, contrary to what old clichés have long suggested.
The most widespread? “The idea that women are eternally ill, as Jules Michelet once said”, notes Muriel Salle, historian at Lyon-I University. In the 19th century, the anatomical norm was in fact embodied by the male body. Anything that differs from this in female physiology is, we think, a dysfunction. “In a way, a woman who is doing well is a woman who is doing badly, since she is by nature…
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