Women like their men tall, but not too tall: study
- Published: 18 Jan 2013 at 14.00
- Online news: Family
A new study on heterosexual couples, reportedly the first of its kind, finds that when it comes to height preferences, both genders prefer a man to be taller than his female partner, but not too much taller.
When it comes to attraction, both men and women prefer the male to be taller, according to new research.
Researchers from Groningen University in the Netherlands analyzed data based on the Millennium Cohort Study of parents of almost 19,000 babies born in the UK in 2000. They found that in more than nine out of ten couples, the man was taller than the woman. Differences in height were on average about 14cm.
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