Women have Adams Apples also, but they have a layer of fat over that part of the trachea. Since the larynx is small, high pitched voices, it is not as noticeable. Same trait as fat on mammary glands.
Imagine my consternation walking the beat my first night on duty. There were 37 bars stretched along the river, (an international shipping port), in two miles, comprising two beats. My mentoring officer took me to every bar on the north end and described their nuances. Old man's bar with a lot of retirees from and large local manufacturer, biker bar, druggie bar, two different native American bars from two different tribes that really didn't get along, upscale bar/supper club, two or three different rough crowd bars with a known fence running one, oh and here's the queer bar. "What?" Yeah, a couple of old queens own it. "What?" They turned out to be a couple of nice old dudes and their bar was almost never any trouble unless some foreign sailors got off a ship and wandered into the wrong place.
