Are Taller Women More Upwardily Mobile?

The Times reports on a new study on women and height:

The two psychologists, who have published their findings in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, questioned 1,220 women — 679 of them aged between 20 and 29, and 541 over the age of 45.

The average height of the women surveyed was just over 5ft 5in — higher than the average for the UK, which is 5ft 4in.

The study aimed to establish whether height, which is controlled by sex hormones, is related to psychological profile. The results suggest that it is.

The more traditional explanation of the relative childlessness of taller women is that they find it harder to attract a partner. But the authors reject this.

They conclude, rather, that taller women have more of the male sex hormone testosterone, which could give them more “male” traits, such as being assertive, competitive and ambitious.