[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

It's all the stuff in our environment: pesticides, cleaning products, bleach, furniture polish, outgassing of carpets, car exhaust. Additional factors for women: makeup, makeup remover, hair dye, nail polish, nail polish remover. Other factors for women: Women spend more time in the home, and do more cleaning (using an array of toxic products). Women are also more "delicate" than men - with smaller muscles, lighter frames, different anatomy. Anything toxic in the environment is going to hit us harder. (For example, women can't drink as much alcohol as men.) As an added "bonus", women have every vitamin and mineral depleted from their bodies at childbirth, leaving them physically vulnerable.

[billorites]

"Women are also more "delicate" than men - with smaller muscles, lighter frames, different anatomy."

Professor Summers? That you?