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ShareJerusalem: Men are the "weaker sex" according to a study, which found that males are not only more likely to develop complications during birth but are more vulnerable to infections and less able to withstand disease than women during adulthood.
In his research of 66,000 births at Israel's Rabin Medical Centre between 1995 and 2006, Professor Marek Glezerman found that males are more likely to develop complications during birth. He found that this vulnerability continued throughout boys' adulthood.
"Men are known to have a shorter life span, are more susceptible to infections and have less chance of withstanding disease than women. In short, men are the weaker sex," said Professor Glezerman, who presented his study to the Israel Society for Gender Based Medicine.
According to a report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, males are also linked with greater "risk in the neonatal period after birth and are more likely to expose themselves to risky behaviour later in life."
"It's almost like males and females are a different species," he said.
Last week, Professor Jennifer Graves, a leading human sex chromosomes researcher with the Australian National University, Canberra, had said that men are on the road to extinction.
Professor Graves predicted that the male Y chromosomneeded to be a male was on the path to extinction and could run out within the next five million years.
