I can see merits to this. A pet topic of study of mine is of the Donner Party expedition. A thing scholars of this interesting historical episode have noted is this is a very good example of the human body being stretched to its absolute limit of endurance with a decent sample size exposed to relatively similar conditions. Interestingly, a decent majority of the survivors were young women. It’s been theorized that they were better able to metabolize and make use of their fat stores than the men, due to their lower metabolic rate, and many firsthand accounts demonstrated that they exhausted less quickly.
It's a different topic, though. Women are the bottleneck of population growth, men are not, therefore women having better survivability makes perfect sense.
Men being stronger and dying younger makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective, and disagrees with the article. Sex-based division of labor makes total sense, otherwise men's mammary glands would actually work.
