Reasoning for Differences of Life Expectancy Between Men and Women

Differences 1

Reasoning for differences of life expectancy between men and women

Differences 2

Reasoning for differences of life expectancy between women and men

In most countries the life expectancy at birth of women is longer than that if men. Historically it has been assumed that this was generally due to biological reasons. But on the basis of my graveyard data which consisted of 50 cases of people from High Point North Carolina, tables and graphs, the relationship between race, gender, and average age of death are summarized with four empirical generalizations that I got from the data. I will only present three to adequately summarize the data because only three have similar commonalities to express why women live longer than men. The first empirical generalization was on the basis of the gender table. The data showed that males have a 36 percent average age of death and females have a 64 percent average age of death and therefore males have 28 percentage points lower average age of death than females. The second empirical generalization was on the basis of the race and gender graph. In this graph females had a higher median age of death than any other category. The last empirical generalization expresses a graph that shows the data of race and sex. The data showed that white females have a significantly higher median age of death than men and black females, as well as black females had a higher average than men. The paradigms I choose to support my empirical generalizations are conflict theory on the macro level which suggests in this case that inequalities of stress and social security are factors for why women live longer than men. Exchange behaviorism on the micro level is the second paradigm which suggests that choices and activities such as drinking, smoking, sex and not going to the doctor routinely are factors that can cause women to have a higher life expectancy than men. The...