But they benefit less than men from the increase in the tax allowance.
Women, goes the argument, have more close friendships outside marriage and so benefit less than men from having a partner.
However, Ann Francke, the chief executive of the trade body the Chartered Management Institute, said a UK economy where women benefited less than men was "unsustainable".
But, for Europe, the significance is that countries that merely use IT will benefit less than countries that also produce it.
The HSBC gauge is more focused on smaller companies, which have benefited less than their larger counterparts from the recent credit expansion, HSBC said in a research note.
Their reasoning is based in part on two observations: first, anemic patients benefit less than other cancer patients from radiation, and second, laboratory studies show that cancer cells low in oxygen, as cells from anemic people are, become resistant to radiation.
Boys benefited less than girls from the programme in terms of the quality of their participation.
Students from minority backgrounds benefited less than majority students from the programme in terms of degree of participation.
A decision is made on the extent of the additional benefit (major, considerable, minor, no benefit or benefit less than comparator) and the level of evidence (proof, indication, hint) [3 5].
The municipality or landowner who may need to finance a risk reduction measure may benefit less than others in the river system or in a landslide-prone area, and for others the measure may even cause negative impacts.
But the rate declined by two percentage points between 2000 and 2010, as blacks benefitted less than whites from the post-9/11 economic recovery.
