Comments | anthropologist: Tall women are more career minded

sugarimp in anthropologist

Tall women are more career minded

Aug 25, 2005 19:35

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 ( Read more... )

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notyourbroom August 25 2005, 18:04:39 UTC

first link under your "related stories":But why men should prefer smaller women is unclear, says Daniel Nettle of the Open University, who led the research. "There is no evidence that shorter women conceive more quickly or are more fertile in a contemporary population," he says. In fact, previous studies have found that smaller women are more likely to die in childbirth.

sugarimp August 25 2005, 18:08:20 UTC

Yeah, I saw that. The article I'm thinking of was fairly recent tho. I just don't remember where i saw it.

"In fact, previous studies have found that smaller women are more likely to die in childbirth."

That's quite unlikely in places with good medical care tho.

dodging_fate August 25 2005, 23:21:53 UTC

heh, heh, heh... I'm a six foot tall woman, have two unplanned kiddos and have a low-income service career by choice... either this is off or I'm a total anomoly, lol!

caatinga August 27 2005, 18:56:23 UTC

That's interesting...I'd be interested to know when these tall women's height increases happened. If they were adolescent, there's a good chance these females were significantly taller than their male counterparts as girls tend to go through puberty a year or so before boys do. Year 12 is a time when sexual interaction may be heavily tendered by height equity (how many 12 year olds do you know who are insecure in their manhood?), causing boys to eliminate girls who are significantly taller from their pool of interest/sexual reciprocation. So, what do these gangly girls do within their space of (temporary?) marginalization? They may reevaluate and refocus away from mating procedures and onto other pursuits where success is more controllable. These years are formative, so it's possible this process is projected into subsequent years and even hard-wired forever ( ... )