Originally Posted by Trakhak

Georgena Terry, who is best known for having been a pioneering designer of women-specific bike frames, researched the notion that women tend to have longer legs than men for a given height and found that the evidence says otherwise (see, for example, this study). Women of average or greater height who are slim usually appear to have longer legs, but that perception is primarily a consequence of their having less muscle mass at the top of the leg than men of the same height.