As Margaret Mead has noted, the only women allowed to be dominant and respectable at the same time are widows. You have to do what society wants you to do, have a husband who dies, and then have power thrust upon you through no fault of your own. The whole thing seems very hard on the men. Before we go on to other reasons why Women's Liberation Is Men's Liberation, too and why this incarnation of the women's movement is inseparable from the larger revolution perhaps we should clear the air of a few more myths the myth that women are biologically inferior, for instance. In fact, an equally good case could be made for the reverse.
Women live longer then men.
That's when the groups being studied are always being cited as proof that we work them to death, but the truth is that women live longer than men even when the groups being studied are monks and nuns. We survived Nazi concentration camps better, are protected against heart attacks by our female hormones, are less subject to many diseases, withstand surgery better and are so much more durable at every stage of life that nature conceives 20 to 50 per cent more males just to keep the balance going. The Auto Safety Committee of the American Medical Association has come to the conclusion that women are better drivers because they're less emotional than men. I never thought I would hear myself quoting the AMA, but that one was too good to resist. The truth is that we're just not sure how many of our differences are biological and how many are societal.