Sex Differences in Mortality as a Social Indicator

Résumé du livre

Using a macro-sociological model, this paper argues that the status of women is an important determinant of sex mortality differences. This is done first by examining data from India which is known to have an excessively high level of female mortality. The examination is further extended by a pooled cross-section and time-series analysis of the excess of female life expectancy over the male life expectancy for 83 countries.