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Mental health gap: is women-s mental health more vulnerable
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Women report higher levels of depression and anxiety than men. This impacts their quality of
life and promotes discrimination. Two reasons can explain the gender gap: either women are
more vulnerable to risks or more exposed to them. Using data from a 2022 survey
representative of the Portuguese population, the aim of this study is to test the vulnerability
hypothesis. The results, from three ordered logistic models, show that women's mental health
is not worse when exposed to the same risks than men. This indicates that tackling
socioeconomic inequality can help closing the mental health gap – if exposure to appropriate
income levels was equal, the probability of women reporting no suggestive symptoms would
increase by 0.41 percentage points (from 4.15 p.p. to 4.56 p.p.).
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Mental health Gender gap Inequality Vulnerability Exposure