The Gender Sleep Gap
Among Fitbit users:
- Women get about 25 minutes more sleep on average.
- Men get a slightly higher percentage of deep sleep than women until around age 55. Then women get more deep sleep.
- Women get 10 more minutes per night REM sleep.
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