Older working women are healthier than non-workers

Postmenopausal women who work tend be in better health than their unemployed contemporaries, says research from South Korea.

A team of scientists looked at records of 3,141 premenopausal Korean women and 2,115 postmenopausal women. They found that employed postmenopausal women were 34% less likely to have metabolic syndrome  (obesity-related conditions that increase risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease) compared to unemployed women of the same age.

It is difficult to establish, however if work makes women healthy or if healthy women are more likely to have jobs.