Men care more, or at least they pretend to

Women’s sympathy with husbands and boyfriends who complain of having a cold runs out after just five minutes, a survey claims…

Some 18 per cent [of women] said that they start from an unsympathetic point of view, according to the survey carried out for carried out for the makers of Lemsip.

But men claimed to be far more sympathetic with 64 per cent saying they would offer to cook dinner and 70 per cent said they would be sympathetic.

Almost four out of 10 men claimed to have taken a day off work to look after their wife or girlfriend.

Perhaps surprisingly, only 13 per cent of women polled said that they had been cared for by a partner when they were ill.