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Help me find a citation? Currently, the only large-scale study of the effect of radiation on women comes from survivors of Hiroshima. From that, it appears that radiation affects women at ten times the rate it does men. No one knows why. 1/2

Somewhere I read that there's a possibility the difference might not be physiological, but may have simply been that women were more involved in cleaning house and tending to wounded so had more frequent exposure.

I don't remember where I read it. Help? 2/2

To clarify some things. Whatever I read was looking at gender bias and wondered if the researchers might have failed to account for differences in domestic activities and how that might affect exposure risks.

Also, it's not these articles, which everyone is sending to me. They are very, very interesting, but not the one I'm looking for.

theguardian.com/world/2015/oct…