Why is the state pension age for women lower than men?

Is is because they work harder?

I have always struggled to understand why it was lower in the first place given women generally live longer than men and retain good health for longer on average.

So let me get this right lyds - you are saying that you believe you are genetically programmed to end in your 60s and yet you still spend your late 50s drinking tap water, digitising 35 year old diaries and reading legal cases from end to end for laughs?