Women and Stress
Are women more stressed out than men are?
Women sometimes have a reputation for being worriers. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, women are more worried about a range of social issues than men are. Significantly more women than men answered that they worried "a great deal" about seven of the 12 issues in the survey.
Studies show that, in addition to worrying more often, women may be physiologically prone to experiencing more stress. For example, the amygdale of the brain processes emotions like fear and anxiety. In men, the amygdale communicates with organs that take in and process visual information, like the visual cortex.
In women, though, it communicates with parts of the brain that regulate hormones and digestion. This may mean that stress responses are more likely to cause physical symptoms in women than in men.
[Source: Live Science]
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