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Women who live to be 100 or more are rare–but not as rare as men who do. In the UK, five times as many women as men receive the "congratulations" birthday card from the Queen on their 100th birthdays. Life expectancy has been steadily improving for both sexes in most developed countries, but it’s been improving more for men than for women, who already live much longer.

What’s the reason–lifestyle or genes? Or is it because women’s pills work better?
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You may not have noticed, but women are now on top. They’re supporting their families during the recession, because they’re more flexible–they’re better at adapting to major changes in the economy and the culture. Is the recession really a "mancession?"

In the recession, three-quarters of the millions of jobs lost were lost by men. The worst-hit industries were overwhelmingly male, such as construction, manufacturing, and high finance. In 2009, for the first time in American history, the workforce tipped towards women, who continue to occupy around half of our nation’s jobs.
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They really do! A new study reveals that the way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different: Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. In fact, most of the people who are colorblind are men.

In the brain there are high concentrations of male sex hormone (androgen) receptors throughout cerebral cortex, especially in the visual cortex, which is responsible for processing images. Androgens are also responsible for controlling the development of neurons in the visual cortex, meaning that males have 25% more of them than females.
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