Why don’t women lose hair?

50 percent of women over 50 have thinning hair. So they are not immune. Their estrogens support their hair and when the estrogen levels drop with menopause, the androgens take over and the genetic that impact men start showing;,however, most women do not develop pattern balding just generalized thinning. Many women in their 20s and 30s also have a special type of female balding that is different than men.