For more than a century, women have outlived men — by an average of six years. It’s a quiet gap that measures more than biology. It tells the story of unequal healthcare, dangerous work, untreated stress, and cultures that taught men to ignore their pain. But in the Sheconomy timeline, that gap disappears. When women gained equal economic and political power in 1925, global health priorities changed overnight. Public funds once steered toward industrial expansion began flowing into community medicine and prevention. Mental health programs became national policy. Safer workplace standards were written and enforced. By the 1960s, gender-equal healthcare systems meant that boys and girls received the same early screening and care. By the 1980s, men’s life expectancy caught up to women’s — not because women lived less, but because men finally lived better.