By: Mariam Sharia
Great news, ladies! Science has shown that
because the brain of a woman is more complex than the brain of a man, she needs
more sleep.
Director of the Speech Research Centre at
England’s Loughborough University Professor Jim Horne explains: “For women, poor
sleep is strongly associated with high levels of psychological distress and
greater feelings of hostility, depression, and anger.” He goes on to add that
inversely, “These feelings were not associated with the same degree of sleep
disruption in men.”
While we now know that the
8-hours-every-night-model is not the ideal template for everybody, most people
need to get around 7 hours in order to function like a productive/normal member
of society.
Regardless, Professor Horne says women need
more zzz’s than men because their "brains are wired differently from men’s
and are more complex, so their sleep need will be slightly greater." That
complexion lays in the fact that women do more multi-tasking than men
("They do lots at once and are flexible") and use more of their brain
more strenuously on any given day, meaning they need more time to recover.
He notes an exception:
"A man who has a complex job that involves a lot of decision making
and lateral thinking may also need more sleep than the average male...though
probably still not as much as a woman."
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