by Knight Ridder
Washington- Women do most of the housework and child rearing. They get paid less than men doing the same jobs. Now, there's evidence they also get shortchanged on sleep.
A study released by the national Sleep Foundation shows that three specific biological events - menstruation, pregnancy and menopause - disrupt the sleep of a majority of women and interfere with how well they function during the day.
Women are 50 percent more like;y than men to suffer from insomnia, statistics show. But women's complaints have often been dismissed as depression, hysteria or emotional responses that may not have a medical cause, said Thomas Roth, chief of sleep medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Start with a woman's monthly cycle. Seventy-one percent of women reported that their sleep was disrupted in the first few days of their periods or days preceding it.
Pregnant women were found to be the sleepiest. Seventy-nice percent of pregnant women reported disturbed sleep.
Menopause disrupted the sleep of 56 percent of women. In many cases, hot flashes were to blame.
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