Research says women wake up grumpier than men

By Tando Mfengwana
27 October 2006

A study has shown that women are in a bad mood for up to four hours after waking up. The Sleep Council found that 13 percent of women are grumpier when they wake up in the morning, compared to 10 percent of men, the Cape Times reports.

Forty percent of those studied put the cause of their bad mood on a disturbed night. Twenty-four percent said it was because of stress and worry. eople from London, UK are the grumpiest. But only seven percent of those surveyed in northeast UK get seven nights’ good sleep.