Women wave Sweden flags outside the Royal Palace ahead of the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O’Neill that will take place later today on June 8, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
The extent of gender equality in a country can affect women’s cognitive health.
Such is the conclusion of a new study that looked at how the cognitive functioning of women changed over time based on where they lived.The lead author of the study, Eric Bonsang of University Paris-Dauphine and Columbia University, said this is the first attempt to shed light on the negative consequences that gender inequality has on women’s health later in life.
“It [the study] shows that women living in gender-equal countries have better cognitive test scores later in life than women living in gender-unequal societies. Moreover, in countries that became more gender-equal over time, women’s cognitive performance improved relative to men’s,” said Bonsang.
Bonsang and his colleagues noticed that women in Northern European countries outperformed men on memory tests. The opposite effect could be observed in…
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