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LIFESTYLE

SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES

Here are some interesting facts and statistics about the so-called “fairer sex”

in celebration of Women’s Month

Brainpower Under-representation words a day.
• The two highest IQ scores in recorded • Globally, the sex ratio at birth is about • The average amount of time a woman
history belong to women. 100 girls per 105 boys. This ratio is can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15
• Girls’ brains generally mature two years more skewed in Asia and North Africa. minutes.
earlier than boys’ brains. • Women spend nearly one year of their
• On average, women live two to five Mars versus Venus lives deciding what to wear.
years longer than men. • The nearer a mother lives to the • The average woman eats 4 pounds
• Women see 20% more colour than men. equator, the more likely she is to give (1.8kg) of lipstick in her lifetime.
• Experts say that, adjusting for age and birth to a baby girl as opposed to a baby • The average woman will own 19 pairs
on average, women are more rational boy. of shoes and 111 handbags, and try
than men because they have a thicker • Women speak about 20 000 words out 150 different hairstyles in her
cerebral cortex than men. a day, while men speak about 7 000 lifetime.

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