As for their long-term stress response, women on average have the same levels of cortisol as men, and these are equally volatile. But research has found that women’s stress response is triggered by slightly different events. Women are not as stressed by failures in competitive situations as are men; they are more stressed by social problems, with family and relationships. What all these endocrine differences between men and women add up to is the following: when it comes to making and losing money women may be less hormonally reactive than men. Their greater numbers among risk takers in the
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