For 100 years, US women outlived US men, due to cardiovascular and lung cancer death rates related largely to smoking habits..
A new study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021.
As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010
Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US, 2010-2021. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/…
The Life Expectancy Gap Between Men and Women Is the Widest Its Been in Decades
Americans are overall living shorter lives, but women still have men beat.
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/life-expectancy-gap-between-men-and-wo…