Why girls usually tend to have insomnia — and 6 methods to beat it | Weekend

How have you been sleeping? If you are female, there is a greater chance that the answer is “not well”. Insomnia can affect anyone, but research now suggests that women are 58 per cent more likely to experience it than men.

In a recent paper that looked at the sleep gender gap, Dr Xuejie Ding, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, found that women reported more sleep loss than men during the first two months of the 2020 lockdown, and that even as sleep improved they still slept an average eight minutes a night less than men. “We speculate that a sudden increase in family duties can lead to shorter sleep duration because we only have 24 hours in