Is it harder being a man or woman? Or do they both come with different challenges?

I was talking to a girl friend and she told me her life would be so much easier if she was a man. A guy friend tried to tell her all she would find are a different set of difficulties being a man. I’ve thought about this a lot, girls do you really think life would be easier as a man? How so? And do other guys think that girls lives are easier? I always thought it was harder being a male.