Also referred to as women who suffer from "pattern hair loss," women who experience androgenetic alopecia are perhaps the most numerous. This condition belies a tendency to produce very little volume or an abundant volume of the weak type of androgens in her body, which often causes the hair to thin in a specific area of a woman's scalp. It is characterized by excessive thinning of scalp hair at the onset while retaining a thick hair density on the front and side crown of the head. Hair does not shed; more often, thinning just occurs in the middle area of the scalp and this worsens through the years. There are solutions to this hair loss problem in women, and hair transplant or laser treatment are, by far, the most popular ones.

Traction alopecia, on the other hand, is caused by the woman's choice of wearing her hair pulled back in tight ponytail, pigtail or bun. This is, therefore, controllable by merely changing the hair style to something that is looser but equally fashionable and trendy. If she wears her hair loose, and she gives her scalp the gentle massage by brushing it in the manner prescribed in the proverbial "hundred strokes at night" with a blunt-tipped hairbrush, her thinning hair will stop shedding and go back to its normal luxurious growth.

Alopecia areata is characterized by round patches of balding spots on random areas of the scalp, surrounded by an otherwise thick growth of hair. This occurs when the body system fails to recognize the hair follicles in those areas and attacks these with inflammatory cells, causing the hair in those patches to fall off. Since women with alopecia areata are not sick at all, the body system does not find any necessity to produce compromising immune system for these attacks.