One benefit of being a woman

We live longer!

U.S. News and World Report listed 7 Reasons Men Die First.

Who is the enemy?

Women serving in the miltary face discrimination on the battleground and off.

A recently published study found that "The review of the quality of care at VA facilities, which was mandated by Congress, found that at about one-third of its facilities, the quality of outpatient care given to women wasn't as good as what was offered to men."

Last month a New York Times Op-Ed, reported that "Women make up some 15 percent of the United States active duty forces, and 11 percent of the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly a third of female veterans say they were sexually assaulted or raped while in the military, and 71 percent to 90 percent say they were sexually harassed by the men with whom they served."

How things remain the same

The New York Times Magazine article, "When Mom and Dad Share It All," reports that household chore ratio between husband and wife has essentially not changed that much in 90 years.

"The most recent figures from the University of Wisconsin’s National Survey of Families and Households show that the average wife does 31 hours of housework a week while the average husband does 14 — a ratio of slightly more than two to one."

And if you think that's bad. The ratio of childcare responbislities is worse:

"Where the housework ratio is two to one, the wife-to-husband ratio for child care in the United States is close to five to one."