P.M. BRIEFING : Sick Day Differential: 1 Day a Year
<i> From Times wire services </i>
WASHINGTON —
Working women take about one more sick day per year than men, the National Center for Health Statistics reported in a new study today.
Women averaged 5.5 lost work days per year, compared to 4.3 missed days for men, in the analysis covering 1983 through 1985.
John Gary Collins, one of the authors, declined to speculate on reasons for the difference, saying “there could be many possibilities.”
He said that comparative figures for men and women, which the National Center for Health Statistics had not collected before, were included in its new study because women now make up such a large portion of the work force. At the time of the study, women maed up 44% of the labor force.
