Are you more likely to put yourself at risk to help a woman than help a man?

Researchers have conducted experiments to test whether there is a gender bias in costly altruism.

Costly altruism – helping others at the cost of yourself – is perhaps a noble cause, but in the fight for gender equality, does a gender bias towards women affect who we choose to save or not?

A study conducted by Cambridge University’s Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in collaboration with Columbia University suggests that most people think women’s welfare should be preserved over men’s.