There is a perception in our and even in the western society that Females are weaker than males as far as their physique, way of countering disease or any physical assault is considered. Women are biologically stronger than men and hence tend to outlive their male counterparts, finds a study challenging the pre-conceived notion that the female sex is weaker. The findings showed that women do not just outlive men in normal times, but they are also more likely to survive even in the worst of circumstances such as famines and epidemics. Women's increased life expectancy is because they tend to have a survival advantage in infancy rather than adulthood.
In times of adversity, newborn girls are more likely to survive than newborn boys. However, even when mortality was very high for both sexes, women still lived longer than men by six months to almost four years on average. This advantage in…
