In Battle for More Sleep, Men Win, Women Lose

How many times a night does your spouse wake you up?
Twice? Four times? The London Times reports that research by the Sleep Council has found that half of us are regularly woken
about six times a night by our partners, particularly if they snore or
fidget. The same mysterious Sleep Council reports that one in four of us
regularly retreats to a spare room or sofa for a refreshing night’s sleep,
and the National Association of Home Builders predicts that by 2015 more
than 60 per cent of custom-built houses will have dual master bedrooms. When that happens, research suggests, women will benefit more than men, if only because they now suffer more than men. The Times reports that when Professor Jim
Horne, the director of the Loughborough University Sleep Research Centre,
attached movement monitors to men and women sleepers, he found that men
moved much more than women and were far more likely to disturb women than
the other way round. The paper reports that Horne’s observation was confirmed recently in a study, reported in the
journal Sleep and Biological Rhythms, that found that women benefited for more from sleeping alone than men. 
Read more in the Times of London.