Women do most of the housework and child rearing.
They get paid less than men doing the same jobs. Now, there's evidence they also get shortchanged on sleep. But women's complaints have often been dismissed as depression, hysteria or emotional responses that may not have a medical cause, said Thomas Roth, chief of sleep medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Start with a woman's monthly cycle. Seventy-one percent of women reported that their sleep was disrupted in the first few days of their periods or days preceding it.