A Blogger for the Huffington Post recently pronounced sleep to be ‘the next great feminist issue,’ arguing that for women, getting better quality of rest is the next important step towards equality that we need to take.
I’m pretty sure that if you got a room full of avowed feminists together, improved sleep is not exactly the first hot button issue they’d go to. Trust me on this, there’s a lot more issues than that to be going on with first! Still, if you back off from that rather grandiose claim for a bit, it’s not too hard to see the sense in the statement that if women are to live better and fulfilling lives, getting more sleep is important.
What’s more, researchers at Loughborough University have found that women tend to need more sleep than men, by virtue of the different tasks they tend to do. As women tend to do more tasks at once than men, the corresponding tendency is that they often use more of their brains then men do.
There’s a lot that could be said, both sarcastically and otherwise about that little nugget of scientific research, but let’s leave the sarcastic, battle-of-the-sexes arguments aside for a while if we can.
Let’s look at the facts. We know that women end up with less sleep. We also know that men snore more than women, and here’s that third fact- that a partner’s snoring is one of the most frequent, and most annoying, causes of disturbed sleep for people sharing a bed.
If you’re a male snorer, or a female suffering from sleeping next to one, surely it’s worth trying to do something about it?
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