Catching Zzzs: Women Lie Awake and Wonder: Why Is Most Sleep Research Conducted on Men?

Authors

Gayle Greene, Scripps CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

English (Scripps)

Publication Date

7-2003

Disciplines

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

Insomnia affects twice as many women as men. Yet 75 percent of sleep research (according to a 2003 report for the National Institutes of Health) has been conducted on men. The standard textbook for sleep studies, Princples and Practices of Sleep Medicne, edited by Meir Kryger, Thomas Roth, and William Dement, has no chapter on women and sleep.

Rights Information

© 2003 Old City Publishing, Inc.

DOI

10.2307/4024232

Recommended Citation

Greene, Gayle. “Catching Zzzs: Women Lie Awake and Wonder: Why Is Most Sleep Research Conducted on Men?” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 20, no. 10/11, 2003, pp. 5–6.