In the lifelong debate of estrogen versus testosterone that seems to never wane, I declare a victor.

Each gender has its own theories and evidence against the other, ridiculing back and forth about what makes one more difficult to understand than the other. Ladies, I am here to tell you that we have won this battle because we are, by far, the more complicated sex.

Although, I’m not sure we actually ‘won’ anything. Being a woman is hard.

Aside from the very obvious complexities that men typically use against us, such as our mood swings and constant craving to always be “right,” we women have to deal with many other everyday factors that make our lives difficult to experience and justify.

Many women struggle with proving themselves and getting equal treatment in the workplace. While many people think women and men are treated equally and a problem no longer exists, women still experience prevalent and biased treatment during their employment.

Pew Research Center conducted a recent study about women in the workplace. The results yielded some alarming statistics. Women between the ages of 25 and 32 are starting their careers with a better education than men — 38 percent of women have at least a four-year degree compared with 31 percent of men. Despite this, women are only earning 93 percent of the average hourly wage of men.

Women not only have to deal with bias in the workforce. They also have to deal with difficult hormonal and bodily changes, which warrants our occasional moodiness. 

Medscape.org released a chart showing how diverse a woman’s hormone levels are during her menstruation cycle. The level of progesterone in a woman can spike from two to nearly 60 in a matter of days.

These rapid changes can fuel acne breakouts, severe headaches and a whole barrage of other ailments. While many people find women’s grumpiness confusing during this time, it is out of our control. Hormones do it to us.

Women also have to endure hormonal and bodily changes during pregnancy. Those changes can take quite the toll on a woman’s well-being. These hormonal changes cause side effects, such as morning sickness and an array of emotional symptoms. This all comes before actually giving birth. The fact that a woman’s body can endure such dramatic changes shows just how complex our bodies are.

Finally, females constantly experience stereotypes. While some are truthful, it is tiring to constantly be lumped into one massive category. Like men, every woman is unique, and we each have our own habits and methods of doing day-to-day activities.

Some days when a woman says she is “fine,” it really means everything is OK. Men tend to read too much into this word, assuming we are angry when we use it.

Men should examine our words instead of our body language because our words will almost always tell the real story. 

Websites such as Urban Dictionary feed these unjust stereotypes. Urban Dictionary released “50 facts about women,” in which women are pigeonholed into being one personality type. To clear things up, not all of us love shopping and not all of us hate cars. We are all individuals.

While women may have been dubbed the more difficult sex in general, many reasons exist as to why we are “moody” or “confusing.” Many biological reasons validate our seemingly complicated actions. It is who we are — independent individuals who are naturally complex — and I wouldn’t change being a “confusing” woman for the world.