Women ‘suffer more stress from daily travel’

In fact,researchers at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University found commuting has a negative effect on women’s mental health while men are,generally,unaffected.

Their research,published in the ‘Journal of Health Economics’,says women have a greater responsibility for day-to-day tasks.

“Women,especially those with children,are more likely to add errands to their commute. These make commuting stressful,” Professor Jennifer Roberts,who led the study said.

The only men to be affected had pre-school children and even then the effect was less as compared with women in a relationship but without children,the study found.