Why does menopause cause women to be a little aggressive?

Hormone Changes: Agressiveness in females is due to swings in estrogen or too much male hormone, both of which may be a work around menopause. Estrogen is definitely declining and the swings up and down may be much more dramatic. Same as pms. The decrease in estrogen makes the same amount of normal male hormone production is nthe female more dominant and can result in this behavior also.