Tall women are more career minded
TALL women may aim higher in their careers and be less focused on having children.
Researchers at the University of Stirling and the University of St Andrews in Scotland asked 679 women aged 20 to 29 about their desire for children and 541 women aged over 45 when they had given birth to a first child and how many children they had had.
Taller-than-average women in the younger group wanted to start having children later and to have fewer of them. In the older group, taller women had had fewer children and had waited longer before having them.
Previous studies have suggested that taller women have fewer children because they have more trouble finding mates. But the Scottish team speculates that tall women may have higher levels of circulating androgens, which could cause them to exhibit more masculine tendencies
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[There was also something about short women being more fertile because they have shorter uteruses or fallopian tubes, and hence, a short journey for sperm? Can't seem to find the article on that, tho.]
Researchers at the University of Stirling and the University of St Andrews in Scotland asked 679 women aged 20 to 29 about their desire for children and 541 women aged over 45 when they had given birth to a first child and how many children they had had.
Taller-than-average women in the younger group wanted to start having children later and to have fewer of them. In the older group, taller women had had fewer children and had waited longer before having them.
Previous studies have suggested that taller women have fewer children because they have more trouble finding mates. But the Scottish team speculates that tall women may have higher levels of circulating androgens, which could cause them to exhibit more masculine tendencies
Related stories:
Short women more successful with men
Tall women rate high in the attraction stakes
[There was also something about short women being more fertile because they have shorter uteruses or fallopian tubes, and hence, a short journey for sperm? Can't seem to find the article on that, tho.]