In 2019 new research published suggested that women are less likely to receive bystander CPR.Regardless of gender, the overall survival rate for an out -of-hospital cardiac arrest is shockingly less than one in ten.Every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation reduces the chance of survival by up to 10 per cent, which is why knowing how to perform CPR is essential and doing something is always better than doing nothing. FACT.