Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the question of gender differences. But until now no one has investigated the scientific evidence concerning the key issue of the psychological health of men and women. In the first systematic investigation of national mental health surveys, Professor Daniel Freeman of the University of Oxford reveals that mental health problems are more common in women than in men. In a new book entitled The Stressed Sex, published today (23 May) by Oxford University Press, it is shown that in any given year women experience 20-40% higher overall rates of psychological disorder than men.
