Women up to four times more likely than men to get sick from working too much

By splitting grueling hours at home and in the office, women are working themselves into an early grave, a new study finds.

 

Women who logged 60-hour work weeks over three decades tripled their risks for diabetes, certain cancers and heart problems, and quadrupled their risk for arthritis, according to the study from Ohio State University.

For men, only arthritis was a likely symptom of too much time spent at the office.

A second study found that at least 10 hours of overtime a week led to more hospitalizations for women — but fewer for men. Why the gender gap?

By splitting grueling hours at home and in the office, women are working themselves into an early grave, a new study finds.

Women who logged 60-hour work weeks over three decades tripled their risks for diabetes, certain cancers and heart problems, and quadrupled their risk for arthritis, according to the study from Ohio State University.

For men, only arthritis was a likely symptom of too much time spent at the office.

A second study found that at least 10 hours of overtime a week led to more hospitalizations for women — but fewer for men. Why the gender gap?

 

"They work over 60 hours a week for many, many years," Dembe said. "This is the kind of person working excessively hard for many hours in a long stressful situation. It may be those hours are now manifesting itself and it does not manifest itself until later in life."

Dembe based his study on a survey of 12,686 men and women who were between 14 and 22 in 1979 and were interviewed consistently over 32 years.