The researchers found that crude stroke rates were significantly higher in women compared with men (5.8 percent vs. 4.3 percent).
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Compared with men who never ate cereal, those who averaged one serving per week had a 7% lower risk of hypertension.
The United States remains the only developed country with no guarantee of paid maternity leave and is lagging behind on how much women earn compared with men.
Democrats acknowledged privately that they expected to make political gains with women by pressing to close the pay gap, which they said has women earning just 77 cents on the dollar compared with men.
Historically, men who get a diagnosis of prostate cancer have been nearly twice as likely to kill themselves and more likely to die of heart-related causes soon after their diagnosis compared with men in the general population, a study has found.
The most compelling evidence came from the Kenyan study, where circumcised men could be compared with men of the same Luo group and Christian religion who were not circumcised but who had similar numbers of sexual partners and rates of condom use.
Men who were single, separated, or divorced at the time of their prostate-cancer diagnosis were at greater risk of both cardiovascular risk and suicide compared with men who were married or living with a partner when they got a diagnosis, according to the study.
Overall, circumcision reduced the men's risk of genital herpes by 28 percent (10.3 percent of uncircumcised men developed genital herpes compared with 7.8 percent of circumcised men) and HPV infection by 35 percent (27.8 percent of uncircumcised men were infected with HPV compared with 18 percent of circumcised men).
Men are more likely to own IRAs compared with women, men contribute more on average, and men have much higher individual average and median balances than women.
Only 14% of men and 25% of women had their own child, compared with 50% of men and 68% of women who were born at term.
Just 26% of women in India have an account with a formal financial institution, compared with 46% of men.
Fifty-eight percent of women, for instance, have never banked online, compared with 55% of men, according to Javelin's study.
It is estimated that it takes just two years for women to develop a drink-related illness, compared with 10 years for men.
About 64 percent of women voted, compared with 60 percent of men.
About 44% of women 18 to 24 were enrolled in college or a graduate program in October 2010, compared with 38% of men the same age.
For white men, the gap was even bigger: 67.5 years for the least educated white men compared with 80.4 for those with a college degree or better.
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In the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, author Nitin Nohria points to research findings that 60% of women felt excluded from networking opportunities compared with 4% of men.
There are only 21 women leading Fortune 500 companies, and according to a recent McKinsey survey, only 18% of women managers want to be CEO, compared with 36% of men.
According to a Populus poll for the Times last month, only 33% of women were prepared to say that Mr Blair was a good prime minister compared with 39% of men.
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Only 20% of men and 24% of women in Scotland ate the recommended five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day compared with 25% of men and 29% of women in England.
When it comes to the top tier, women worldwide were much more likely than men to lose their jobs, with 19 percent of female senior executives losing their jobs, compared with six per cent of men.
And women took far longer on average to discover their financial identities had been compromised, leading to far greater risk of repeat fraud: Women took 83 days to detect they'd been targeted, compared with 45 days for men.
Twenty percent of white men drank to intoxication at least once a month, compared with just 13 percent of black men.
But white men face a relatively mild unemployment rate of just over 10% compared with over 18% among black men.
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One in four men and one in six women said they now used condoms consistently during sex compared with less than one in five men and one in seven women in 1990's survey.
In the latter case, as compared with the former, straight men had blinks that were 40% less vigorous.
More than one-fourth of women who died on the job were victims of homicides, compared with only one in 10 men.
The 54% of women buying fewer clothes and shoes now, compared with only 40% of men, may be better prepared for a recovery.
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