The biggest reason that women during and before the Middle Ages tended to live shorter lives than men was childbirth. Women typically got married and started having children very early in life. Because there was no real contraception, they would typically become pregnant many times. And, ofcourse, becuase there was very little medical knowledge, many died during child-birth. Conditions that are now easily dealt with were, at that time, fatal and life risking.
Probably, if there had not been the problem about childbirth, then men would have lived shorter lives because they went to war.
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