Interestingly, it appears women are more susceptible to ionizing radiation than men. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509159/ https://www.ncbi

Interestingly, it appears women are more susceptible to ionizing radiation than men. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509159/ This surprised me, because I'd have guessed women would fair better, for reasons similar to you. Though I mostly see population-wide studies and not anything that looks at genetic/chromosomal damage.