Study Says Women Take More Sick Days Than Men
From Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Working women take about one more sick day a year than men, the National Center for Health Statistics reported in a new study Monday.
Women averaged 5.5 lost work days a year, compared to 4.3 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 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 comprise such a large portion of the work force. At the time of the study, women constituted 44% of the labor force.
