While reading The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World I found it very clear and shocking about the gap between the life expectancy of women in the world.  "Life expectancy is an irreducible indicator of overall wellbeing.  In most countries, women have an average life expectancy higher than their male counterparts, but for many of the world's women - and men - life is short and hard." (Seager, 16)  It's very interesting that on world average women life up to 70 years old.  However, in places such as Japan, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Italy in the Northern American, women tended to live longer than those in the Middle East such as Mozambique, Malawi, Swaziland, Afghanistan, etc.