During the previous waves of bank runs (the last one during the Great Depression) depositors were overwhelmingly men. However, due to social progress and changes in labor conditions, the gap in the proportion of men and women among the banks’ depositors is closing. Because gender differences in preferences have been identified in different dimensions (see Croson and Gneezy, 2009, for a review), this may have relevant implications concerning how bank run episodes unfold nowadays. More concretely, women generally exhibit a higher degree of risk aversion what may suggest that they will be more likely to participate in a bank run.