BETTER TO BE A TALL MAN

For a man, being tall is associated with career success and emotional. According to a survey by the INSEE, the smallest living less often and later in pairs. Large frames are more frequent and smaller workers.

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Among youth aged 20-29, 47% of those measuring more than 1.80 m are couples cons 41% of those measuring from 1.70 to 1.80 m. Admittedly, this difference vanishes in the next age bracket (30-39 years), with percentages reaching 76% and 74%, but not for those under 1, 70m, since they are that 60% live in couples.

There is also still a clear difference in size according to the social environment.Thus, senior managers and professionals are on average 1.78 m, 3.2 cm more than the workers or farmers. One can speculate that if the size of males increases with economic status, women prefer a spouse with good resources and therefore the greatest. Yet in all settings, small are less likely to live as a couple. Meanwhile, workers are no less often couple that managers and engineers. Another hypothesis, the great careers are beautiful because they require more easily their authority , promoting the ability to order and progress. And finally, do not forget the social norm of the couple "physically well-matched" in which the man is taller than women on average 12cm. This is where three-quarters of men of average size, big is often much larger than their partner (at least 21cm), while 15% of pups are smaller than their spouse.

Discrimination and domestic professional?

The small size seems to be a real handicap in itself that must be fought. Yet, small is no less workers do not feel more nervous or anxious in their work, not more difficult to find a job , do not complain more about their standard of living, are not more frequently short, do not eat more poorly, are not usually obese, do not drink more, and would smoke even less than adults. However, they must compensate and overcome discrimination. For them, age is synonymous withmaturity (explaining the formation of couples later), is an asset as collateral to form a couple stable. Worse, the size would be an indicator of male beauty. And parallel, active and educated women place more importance on beauty than professional success. Of course, these data are only static. If they apply (unfortunately) to large numbers, they are not necessary for everyone.