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Sleeplessness doesn’t bog married women?
Statistics reveal much about the society we live in. Now there is a study that says married women sleep better than singletons. Though, I am not sure if many women I know agree (haven’t asked yet), I am wondering how such a thing can be generalised across the social spectrum.
But first, here’s what the study says. According to the study’s lead author Wendy Troxel, the assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, being stably married or gaining a partner is associated with better sleep in women than being unmarried or losing a partner. This research paper was presented by him on June 10, 2009 at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
There is more. The study gathered data from 360 middle-aged African American, Caucasian, and Chinese women drawn from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, with a mean age of 51 years. What’s more, he claims these results persisted even after controlling for other known risk factors for sleep like age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and depressive symptoms.
I feel the results could vary from home to home. If a woman leaves the autocratic regime of her parents and enters a liberated household where she is allowed to fly, ofcourse she will sleep well and even live well. On the other hand, if the case is vice versa, she might have more sleepless nights than ever before. So I am not sure if the study makes sense to the larger population.
What say, women?
General elections showcase women of substance
It’s heartening to note that this Lok Sabha will comprise the maximum number of women members of parliament in history - 61. Statistics also reveal that women MPs in the past have outperformed men and also have a higher success ratio in elections.
Does this mean, there should be a law that forces political parties to keep many more seats reserved for women? I don’t think so. The meritorious will inherit the earth. After all, who doesn’t want to bank on a winning horse.
Eventually, the political parties themselves will realise the benefits of fielding a woman candidate in elections, and soon enough, the number of women will be close to men, if not equal. I foresee this happening in the 2019 elections.
So long as women can be better administrators in the corridors of power, no one should really have anything to complain. I definitely won’t.
