What is the relationship between women’s work and longevity?

　　Chinese experts pointed out that female The conclusion that career advancement shortens lifespan is not scientific.

　　The higher the position of female white-collar workers, the shorter their life expectancy?

　　U.K. media According to reports, due to changes in women’s lifestyles and increased life pressure, women and male The gap in life expectancy is narrowing. According to the report, the survey shows that the life expectancy of women born in 1974 is 75.6 years and that of men is 69.2 years, a difference of 6.4 years, while the life expectancy of women born in 2002 is 80.7 years and the life expectancy of men born in the same year is 76.2 years, a difference of 4.5 years. The newspaper cited the view that women also bear the burden of raising children and housework while working. In order to relieve stress, they imitate many bad habits of men, such as smoking and drinking alcohol. U.K. healthy Experts assert that as women move up the ranks, the life expectancy gap between women and men will narrow further.

　　Professor Duan from the Population and Development Research Center of Renmin University of China believes that the study of population life expectancy is a very complex process that must be carried out over a long period of time and within a large spatial range. The conclusions drawn from the survey reported by the British media are not scientific and are not suitable for the situation of the Chinese population.

　　Professor Duan said that from a biological point of view, women are inherently advantaged over men and can live longer than men. With the gradual improvement of medical standards, human control disease As women's abilities become stronger and stronger, women's advantages gradually become apparent. From this perspective, the gap in life expectancy between women and men should be gradually widening rather than narrowing.

　　Ms. Wu Xiuping, former vice president of the Beijing Women's Federation, believes that it is an indisputable fact that Chinese women's work pressure has increased, and the role that Chinese traditional concepts assign to women as wives and mothers has not reduced the burden on women's families.

　　But she doesn't think smoking and drinking are ways for Chinese women to reduce stress. She believes that not many high-level white-collar women and female intellectuals smoke and drink.