Why do men have bigger feet in contrast to women? Why aren’t their average foot sizes equal?

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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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So, if you have raised dogs or have been around growing puppies long enough, you can get a fairly good sense of how big they will be by looking at their foot size, if they are mutts or you don’t have any idea what breed they may be.

If their feet look proportionately way too big compared to their body, odds are they will grow to a large size eventually. If the feet look about right, they likely won’t grow too much.

Dogs “grow into their feet”…if it didn’t work that way, there’s a chance their feet could end up too small for their size and weight as they rapidly grow to full size in a year, leading to mobility issues and possibly early death.

I just mention this, because it’s just the correlation of foot size to eventual adult size far more obvious in dogs than it is for human babies that have a couple decades of growth ahead of them, leading to questions like this!

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