whilst women live longer than men they are also ill more often girls are now doing better than boys in school but still remain underrepresented in the key fields of education that provide greater job opportunities similarly although women are increasingly present in the labour market they still earn less than men spend more hours in unpaid work and find it harder to reach the top of the career ladder or start their own business men are more often the uictims of homicide and assault but women are the primary target of intimate partner violence