WOMEN SUFFER WITH MORE SYMPTONS OF STRESS THAN MEN?

LONDON, U.K - Women are locked into a ‘double-shift' of home and work. Both roles leaving them suffering with more symptoms of stress than men.
The double whammy of pressure means that women show the classic symptoms of stress back and neck pain far more than men, even when physical causes are removed, research has revealed.

• The four-year study focused on two groups of men and women one students, the other workers in an effort to isolate possible causes of stress. In both groups, women showed the symptoms of stress more than men.
• In the student group, women students showed more neck pain, and among the work force, whose jobs mostly involved work on computers, women showed more of both back and neck pain, experts at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found. In both the computer users and the students, neck pain was affected by psychosocial factors, the experts said.

They go to work like a man but then also come home and perform the primary role at home, so face double pressure.

Source: Daily Mail