Indeed, learning to cope with stress reduces the risk of depression. The major anxiety disorders are generalized anxiety, panic disorders, agoraphobia, and other specific phobias.
Women are two or three times more likely to be diagnosed as being anxious than men are.
We don't know why, perhaps because they admit fears more, see doctors more, get therapy more, have fewer rights and opportunities, are more abused and deserted, have to care for children alone and often work outside the home too, etc. Girls are also more prone to anxiety than boys, Blacks more than Whites, and the poor more than middle class. You might think it is the busy executive who is most affected by stress. You'd be wrong. More likely to suffer from stress is the ordinary worker who is under heavy pressure to perform and has little control over decisions.