Show female life in insurance a urance k until about fifteen years ago life int sur iLace companies uniformly refused f to insure the lives ot of women on any terms until five years ago such com earn danlea as did write policies on female lives discriminated against them thern to the extent of 0 5 in the thousand only it very few companies even now and these quite recently insure women on an the same terms a as men and yet the I 1 fo tables of seventy five years show the e average death rates of all males to be per thousand and of all females 19 7 per thousand female live ives 3 are therefore 10 6 per cent bet ter w risks anan male lives |