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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH is shorter than average in the US but a typical build in the place from which his parents immigrated. It did not affect his confidence when we were dating, but I have found that he's acquired a chip on his shoulder about it as he's gotten older and risen through the corporate ranks.[b] There is definitely a correlation between height and success in the very upper ranks of his Fortune 500 company. [/b]I think that the current obsession about height creates a huge confidence boost for those people that have it, and that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of height=success. There's also some height/racial stuff that I won't even go into because it's another thread, but I do think that in a white-dominated western culture being from an ethnic background with smaller builds can be a big disadvantage in terms of how mean are perceived. Height is used as a subconscious measurement of testosterone, manliness, etc.

To be clear, I don't think people are choosing CEOs based on height. It starts much earlier. When you have two senior directors with equal abilities and attractiveness but one is taller, their height broadcasts confidence and attractiveness and they'll be the one chosen as VP first. Happens every time.[/quote]

This makes sense but I haven't really seen it play out in really life.  My kids go to two different "Big3" DC high schools where it feels like every other dad is a C suite executive (some of national, fortune 500 companies), managing partner in "Biglaw" or some other crazy elite job and many of them are 5'8-5'11.  I honestly can't think of any who are super tall.  My husband is tall (6'3") (and not in an elite job-lol) and he usually towers over the other dads at sporting events, etc.  [/quote]

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