Well, women are fast moving towards equality with men in one dubious way. Getting heart attacks.
Heart attacks are becoming more common in middle-aged women, researchers say.
The traditional gender gap has narrowed over the past 20 years, with the risk in midlife rising in women and continuing to fall in men, it is claimed.
Smoking rates among women are said to be partly to blame, as fewer are quitting and so are suffering ill-effects at younger ages.
Data on 8,000 adults aged 35 to 54 was analysed between 1988 and 1994 and between 1999 and 2004.
In both study periods, men had more heart attacks than women in the same age group, but the gap narrowed over time.
In the first period, 2.5 per cent of men and 0.7 per cent of women reported a history of a heart attack. But in the later period, 2.2 per cent of men and 1 per cent of women did so.