Despite the differences between countries, the average foot size for women changes between US women’s 5 to 10 (EU 35 to 42), whereas the one for men changes between US men’s 7 to 10 (EU 40 to 44), except a few ones like [a man from Europe I saw on IG having EU 38 feet which is pretty small for a male and wearing women’s shoes especially the ones with pointy toes and stiletto heels](https://instagram.com/withhighheels?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Saw a few men with feet bigger than US 10 too, like Shaquille O’Neal with size 22 and Dwayne Johnson with size 14.
Why is there such a difference?
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On average, men are taller, bigger, and heavier than women. Generally, the heavier you are, the bigger the surface area you need your weight distributed over. So men tend to have longer and wider feet so that their greater weight is distributed over a larger area.
The pressure on a surface is given by force / area. Here, you can think of force as a person’s weight and area as the size of their feet. If men had the same size feet as women, the amount of pressure on their feet would be much higher and likely cause more pain and injury. So men need bigger feet to reduce the pressure on their feet to avoid injury.
To take it to extremes, hippos have very large feet and horses and relatively small ones. If Hippos had feet the size of horses, the pressure on them would be enormous, and they’d end up breaking bones in their feet and ankles.
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