Hi fellow seniors, SC poll:- do women take off more sick days than men?

The impression I got, both from reading the news article at the link you provided, and also from personally recognizing that the woman is usually the one who takes time off to care for the kids who might be ill, is that if their sick-day record were adjusted to not include the sick days for the kids, the numbers might balance out, or possibly be even better than those of men. This possibly because I think that women visit doctors more often and are (as a result) probably healthier in general as a result of this attention to their health. But I know this is based mostly gut feelings and hear say, and not very scientific. So who knows really. I think it curious that employers haven't set up the numbers to include information about which days off were due to personal illness and which ones were for illness of the children. But then, maybe some employers do that, but the writer of the news article didn't look into that.