Are all men stronger than all women?

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Pugzilla wrote:

Vast majority of women, athlete or not, are going to be hard pressed to overpower a reasonably active healthy average height man. If she is a trained fighter with superior technique, then that a changes things, but the guy will still have a size and strength advantage.

All of course could be true, but never underestimate the power of a positive mind, I do know a couple of women though that have exceptional physical strength, they'd be able to compete against most men

Compete in what? Genuine question not a dig against your claim at all.

I'd imagine there might be something like a 5% to 15% intersection here.

Take midpoint of 10% which means top 10% of women would be stronger than bottom 10% of men.

Ignoring elite strength athletes here just your run of the mill males and females.

Heres Johnny wrote: »

I'd imagine there might be something like a 5% to 15% intersection here.

Take midpoint of 10% which means top 10% of women would be stronger than bottom 10% of men.

Ignoring elite strength athletes here just your run of the mill males and females.

That’s along the lines of where I think the bell curves would cross also.

There is evidence, when comparing old clothes to modern clothes worn by men and women to the modern equivalent that women are getting bigger physically and also getting stronger.

In the olden days most women were treated like delicate ornamental objects and not allowed to overexert themselves in physical activities like sports and work.

There was a huge gap between middle and upper class men and middle and upper class women.

The gap between lower class men and women was not as wide as everyone was expected to work for the keep. Tragically men were better fed in this class and the women often went low on food to feed the babies etc.

The relative sizes of both genders have got closer together but the body mass and bone density and percentage of muscle still favours men.

Now that most jobs and roles are mechanised and automated, having big muscles and faster reflexes is no longer as important in work or warfare that it used to be.In many roles it no longer matters.

Many nations such as Soviet Russia and Israel have employed women in traditional male roles effectively for ages. The refusal of the nazis to employ women at all in anything but traditional roles like nurses and secretaries cut their capabilities drastically. The Brits and the Yanks has women in factories and engineering and transport roles which also helped hugely. This was rare in all axis countries, even more so in Japan.