# How are most women able to tolerate being sick better than men?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 23, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-most-women-able-to-tolerate-being-sick-better-than-men/661719 "2013-06-23T19:33:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-most-women-able-to-tolerate-being-sick-better-than-men/661719/41 "2013-07-04T22:29:40Z")

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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Of those 140-days-for-men and 189-days-for-women, how many were ‘calling in sick to take care of someone else’? (A child, elderly parent, or spouse).
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> It would be interesting to know if _those_ numbers differed by the gender of the worker.

I bet they do differ between genders. In my adult working life I’ve taken off almost as much time for my parents’ sake as my own…

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**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-most-women-able-to-tolerate-being-sick-better-than-men/661719/42 "2013-07-04T22:42:36Z")

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> [@installLSC](#):
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> My thought too. Short of being unable to move or constantly vomiting, most people these days suck it up and just go to work. I had a hacking cough last month (was a bacterial lung infection) and although I got sent home from work, I never would of thought of just staying home. After all the many workplaces that combine sick and vacation time really make it hard to justify taking the day off.

Yes, guys may not take sick days but they sure whine and let everyone know how sick they are in the meantime. Usually its not the coworkers who get the “oh woe is me” its the wife or significant other. I just get annoyed when my husband does this. I tell him to take the Nyquil or theraflu and go to bed so I don’t have to hear him.

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