A new study from Columbia University reveals that women born in states with greater structural sexism experience more rapid cognitive decline as they age.
Women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states, a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found. The difference between being born in the most versus the least sexist state was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging . The study is one of a growing number of studies that have investigated links between structural sexism and health.
Structural sexism, like structural racism, does not refer to personal incidences but to inequality in resources and power that stem from social policies and societal norms. Hate crimes or slurs are individual acts of racism or sexism; unfair lending practices and underrepresentation in government are structural. Previous studies have found that exposure to greater structural sexism in adulthood is associated with higher mortality rates, increased risk of chronic health conditions, and less accessible and affordable health care for women. The new study, the first to look at structural sexism and cognitive health, found that memory performance among women age 65 and over declined faster in those born in U.S. states with greater structural sexism compared to those born in states with less structural sexism. The study calculated each state's level of structural sexism during the decades the women were born based on male-to-female ratios in the labor force, the number of females in state legislatures, poverty rates, and other factors. The researchers then looked at relationships between structural sexism levels and memory performance among 21,000 people in the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project and the Health and Retirement Study. The study also found that the association between structural sexism and memory performance was highest among Black wome
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