Why Women Are Less Likely to Recieve CPR

The OC Register said women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die.
The study, which was funded by the Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. Found that only 39 percent of women suffering cardiac arrest in a public place were given CPR versus 45 percent of men.




Researchers theorize the reason stemmed from rescuers being reluctant to touch a woman's chest, remove her clothes, or fear of hurting a woman when pushing hard on her chest.
What the study didn't seem to record was the sex of the rescuers. Would a woman really fear removing another woman's clothes or worry she might be pushing too hard on a woman's chest? If this is not the case, it could mean that less women know CPR than men.
There aren't any statistics on how many women versus men know CPR, but if we assume less women are performing CPR Science Daily may have found a good reason.
A study reported by Science Daily found that Men show stronger leadership in emergency situations, which could also be the reason why women are not generally performing CPR. In the study they separated CPR teams by gender, the comparisons of performance showed the men did better.
Another reason women are less likely to be rescued could be training style the OC Register said.
"Findings suggest that CPR training may need to be improved. Even that may be subtly biased toward males — practice mannequins (they’re not called “woman-nequins”) are usually male torsos," Blewer, the studies lead researcher, told the OC Register.
It would be interesting to see some woman-nequins in training classes. But it would be even better to see less woman dying of sudden cardiac arrest, which is actually the number one killer of women in North America.