text: is it true thet women have a longer life expectancy than men?   yes, but a big reason for that (perhaps the biggest) is because men are, statistically, far more likely to be in higher-risk jobs (military, oil rigs, construction, etc.) and do high-risk things (stunts, dares, etc.)  remember, this is a mean (average) figure: it doesn't mean that any one woman is more likely to outlive any one man, though there might also be a little honest-to-goodness biology involved too. you just have many more people bringing down the average for men than for women.