The weaker sex? Exploring lay understandings of gender differences in life expectancy: A qualitative study☆

Despite the growing interest in sex and health, people ignore the concept of 'settlement' of gender difference in mortality. According to the British 2-year-old group of semistructured interviews data, 45 men and women (born in the 1950s and 1970s), we studied live expecting that women will explain for a long time. Our data suggests that respondents know the longevity of women, but I think it is difficult to explain it. Many arguments are multifactorial, but socio-cultural interpretation is more general and more detailed than biological interpretation, with few trial and error. While with men and people living in similar lives with various social and cultural interpretations (restrictions on the gender role of men and women, men's male 'and gender difference in health-related behaviors in society), the average life expectancy Convergence of each other are associated with each other. Healthy behavior such as doctor's consultation and drinking is usually in a wider structural environment. Female respondents focused on female reproductive and were more likely to care about the role, male respondents are blessed with reasons and are inclined to concentrate on any men in the "provider" role. For example: We put an academic discussion on gender concepts in these stories as "gender as structure" "sex as performance" "like" and "gender diversity difference"

Thank you for those who participated in this study and Sally Macintyre for valuable comments on this article. We also thank Rosey Davidson for 12 interviews; CEO has performed all other interviews. The author is funded by the UK Medical Research Council (WBS U.1300.00.004). The first CE draft of this paper is written between the Geography, University of New Zealand department of Canterbury study vacation. We held a thank-you visit to Wendy Lawson

Gender and sex in many women's studies courses, students must master one of the basic concepts of feminist male and female individuals (understanding feminists as an individual's biological constitution), but people (based on feminist sex Definition is the difference seen during social construction). About sex). Since this principle is very important to understand most of the women's courses, it is an important element of many women's teachers, writing expressions of sex and gender difference in writing at.

Understanding the difference between gender and gender difference is very important. Sexual differences are biologically determined, but gender difference is socially constituted - they are related by society and are associated with expected social roles. There is neither born nor invariance of gender difference. Gender is about the reality of women's living and the background of women's lives. "In order to make programming effective, we must consider the background of women's living" (Abbott and Kerr 1995, 7).

The difference between men and women is sex and sex. Sex is a physiological and physiological difference between men and women. It represents whether a person was born to a woman or born to a man. Gender, not gender. Because gender is a woman or a man, it represents people's expectations for someone or the community. Learning about attitudes and behaviors by gender may change over time. Gender is physiologically decisive, but gender is the role and responsibility of women and men in society and family.

If gender is a biological concept, gender is a social concept. It refers to social and cultural differences that society gives people based on their (biological) sex. Relevant concepts, sexual roles refer to social expectations for people's behavior and attitudes, depending on whether they are female or male. In this way, understanding sex is a social component, as explained in Chapter 3 "Race and Peoples Inequality". Our thoughts and actions as women and men are not inscribed in our biology, but as a result we are expecting society to think and act according to our sex. As we grow we will learn these expectations to develop gender identity and our beliefs for women and men.