I posted before about how under-eating can cause hypothyroid, so it should be no surprise that the risk rates of women getting hypothyroid is parallel with the rates of calorie-restricting eating disorders in women:
"Women have 10 times the risk of hypothyroidism as men"
http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/hypothyroidism
"Anorexia nervosa... is diagnosed approximately nine times more often in females than in males."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa
"Bulimia nervosa is nine times more likely to occur in women than men."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa
This is why almost all the people who are diagnosed with so-called "Adrenal Fatigue" also have hypothyroid, because "AF" is not a real condition, but a mistaken diagnosis of starvation due to calorie-restriction and that is what is causing their hypothyroid.