"..natural disasters lower the life expectancy of women more than that of men... natural disasters on average kill more women than men or kill women at an earlier age than men...for most countries natural disasters narrow the gender gap in life expectancy." Read The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters by Neumayer and Plumper, LSE, 2007.
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