Time, March 31, 2008 "Why Women Need Better Sleep" p.64

As soon as I saw this article another article came into my mind- "Biology Does Not Determine Gender Roles" by Ruth Hubbard. Hubbard's article made the statement "Women's biology is a social construct and a political concept, not a scientific one,..." The Time article seems to say that women's biology is a scientific concept and that based on biological differences women develop more adverse effects because of lack of sleep than men. The reason why women develop more negative effects for lack of sleep than men is that men produce more testosterone than women. Dr. Suarez, from Duke University, did the study that reflects the finding. " I kept trying to disprove the findings, Suarez says. I put in age, but age did not do anything to destroy the results. I put in race because blacks often report worse sleep than whites, but nothing happened. Smoking and, for women, menstrual statues did not eliminate the gender gap either." According to the study women do not get enough sleep are more likely to develop risk factors for diabetes and heart disease than men under the same circumstances. If we accept this findings as correct, is it not true that in our society well-paying and prestige require long hours of work and attending social events at night which means these positions may mean that women will have to trade their future health for their dream job ? If these biological results are true, then society has gendered these high-powered-well-paying jobs by the way society has defined and crafted them or else women's physical health will pay the cost.