Is there a biological basis for an age gap between men and women?

I've mentioned before how reports like the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report seem to assume that measures in which men appear to fare better than women are due to discrimination whereas any in which women appear to fair better than men are due to intrinsic factors. For example, if 60% of those in educational institutions are male then that's a problem whereas if 60% are female that's simply the natural course of things.

Now it seems that there's been some other research done in recent years suggesting that life expectancy may be another of those areas in which lifestyle plays a much larger role than biology. This blog post summarizes data regarding the lifespans of 20th century German monks and nuns relative to the general population, finding that for these cloistered groups the difference between men and women in life expectancy drops by somewhere between 66%-85%. (The raw data is here, and a few gated publications from this data may be found here and here).