It's not just because women are, on average, shorter than men.
Men are bigger and stronger than women. That generalization, although
true, doesn't adequately describe how sex affects our modern lives. In
the first place, men's and women's size and strength are distributions.
Strong women are stronger than weak men, so sex doesn't tell you all you
need to know. Otherwise, as retired colonel Martha McSally put it
with regard to the ban on women in combat positions, "Pee Wee Herman is
OK to be in combat but Serena and Venus Williams are not going to meet
the standard."
Consider height. The height difference between men and women in the U.S.
is about 6 inches on average. But Michael J. Fox, at five feet, five
inches, is shorter than almost half of all U.S. women today. On the
other hand, at five-foot-ten, Michelle Obama is taller than half of
American men. So how do people match up romantically, and why does it
matter?
For the rest of the story: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/why-its-so-rare-for-a-wife-to-be-taller-than-her-husband/272585/
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