Men and women are different. Aside from learned gender roles, there are chemical and neurological differences that separate the two genders. This fact is noticeable, but especially when it comes to concussions, which women are more susceptible.
Sports physician Shannon Bauman evaluated male and female athletes at her specialty concussion clinic in Ontario between September 2014 and January 2016. She found concussions were often more severe in girls. There were differences, Bauman said, in subjective reported symptoms and objective cognitive and visual symptoms observed by doctors.
“Females are reporting more symptoms, but they’re also objectively having more physiological signs of concussion,” Bauman said, according to FiveThirtyEight.