I don’t think one gender has it worse than the other——both males and females face various hardships and challenges specific to their gender. For example, males are expected to be tough——we send our sons off to war and expect them to be strong and not cry, we expect young men to be ambitious and live up to societal expectations of providing for their families and protecting them, and when they divorce they usually get the “short end of the stick” in custody battles for their children and financial support. In general, males also experience more physical violence in the greater society——statistically, they are more likely to be murdered on the streets, get into fights with other males, and die more in vehicle and job-related accidents.
On the other hand, females face more violence domestically, they are still discriminated in the workplace with unequal pay and stereotyping, and experience prejudicial, old-fashioned restrictions and attitudes culturally around the world.
So in the end, no gender really has it worse. It is a very difficult thing to assess, unless you have lived the “full” life of both male and female, and this of course is impossible.