According to this study, men would grow taller than women. Illustration Envato
While living conditions have improved since the last century, the height and weight gap between men and women has been increasing for several years, according to a study.
The height and weight gap between men and women has been increasing for several years, according to a study published in the scientific journal The Royal Society.This is what British researchers from the University of Roehampton have revealed, using data from the WHO (World Health Organization), as well as data from foreign authorities and British registers.
What we learn first is that both women and men have grown and gained weight over the last century. A development that can be explained by improved living conditions. However, the study shows that the development is much more marked among men. In the United Kingdom, for example, in 1905 one in four women was taller than a man, while the figure rose to one in eight in 1958. Furthermore, the average height of women increased by 1.9% to reach 162 cm during the first half of the century, while for men the increase was 4% to reach 1.77 m.
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“As the social and ecological conditions of nations improve, the height and weight of individuals increase, but more than twice as much for men as for women, which translates into an increase in population density”, explains Lewis Hasley, one of the researchers behind the study to the Guardian.
Finally, the study also specifies that for every 0.2% increase in the country's HDI (human development index), a woman measured on average 1.7 cm more and 2.7 kg more while for a man the average is 4 cm more for height and 6.5 kg for weight.
Women more attracted to tall men
According to one of the authors of the study, “women may be attracted to men's height because it makes them potentially more formidable, but also because height suggests that they are well-built“.
Thus, men would have lengthened over time naturally for questions of seduction. A study which also draws on another previous one which demonstrated that women would be more attracted to tall men.