There is a difference!

Or so the "hand washing police" suggest based on recent research. In broad terms, males are much less diligent in washing their hands after using the bathroom - 33% (1 in 3) compared to 12% (1 in 8) of women don't. The study was based on observations of more than 6,000 people in four major US cities last month. This is important especially as, according to doctors, handwashing is the single best thing people can do to avoid getting sick. And while it may seem odd that there are people out there prepared to hang out in public restrooms checking hand washing (or not) behavior it's good they're prepared to because if we relied on self-reporting, we'd never know how bad the situation had become. In a recent survey 92 percent of Americans said they usually or always wash their hands after using the bathroom - as opposed to the 77 percent who researchers for the American Society for Microbiology found actually do.