Women do. Here is a good article about the subject.
www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200307/more-women-suffer-de
Who suffers more from depression? men or women?
More women are diagnosed with depression than men.
However, more men commit suicide than women over the age of 18. Below the age of 18, more females commit suicide than males.
As I understand it, it has been difficult to quantify who suffers more, men or women. The reason being the majority of men do not voluntarily admit or realize they are suffering form depression let alone seek medical care for it.
I read that it has been diagnosed in twice as many women as men. But this does not mean that men are unaffected. On the contrary, it is estimated that between 5 and 12 percent of men will become clinically depressed at some point in life. Specialists say depression remains hidden in men because men visit health professionals less often than women, with less opportunity to talk about their problems,” and they are less able “to articulate emotional distress.” So doctors are more familiar with symptoms that are common in female victims of depression. “In women,” explains JAMA, “depression has a notably different constellation of symptoms than in men.”
