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Sleep & Women

The effects of sleep loss for women and the reasons why they might lose sleep are covered in this article. Studies have shown that women sleep more than men on a usual basis because they go to sleep earlier than men do. However, women usually sleep lighter than men, meaning they are more easily woken up by sounds and they also are more likely to wake up not feeling refreshed. Another factor is that working women have to balance friends, family, work, and personal health which makes also makes stress a large factor in their inability to get to sleep, and when they are asleep, makes them feel as though it were an inadequate amount of sleep.

Read the full article here: http://www.sleepeducation.com/Topic.aspx?id=67