Originally Posted by livedarklions

That's kind of the point, though, there really isn't a "typical" man or woman's body, just some differences in the mean measurements for the two sexes. And those mean differences, other than height and weight really are pretty small. So designating some geometry differences as being "men" and others "women" is really arbitrary. A man is just as likely to need the more upright posture or the wider seat as a woman, in other words.

I've told this story before on BF, but the military discovered that a lot of pilot fatalities in WWII were caused by designing the cockpit to suit the measurements of the average male pilot, and when they studied this, they discovered that literally no one actually had those measurements. Thus, they were designing a cockpit that virtually no one could operate efficiently. Averages are useless in designing a product that has to fit an actual person.