Women are more likely than men to experience pain.
They are also more able to cope with pain and tend to have higher tolerances for pain than men. Women s livers metabolize drugs, including alcohol, more slowly than do men s. Women s digestive systems work more slowly than do men s. Women develop more cases of melanoma, but men are more likely to die from this skin cancer. Both men and women develop diabetes, yet women of all ages who have diabetes are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop heart disease.